# Arrive at Easterwine

- Author: [R.A. Lafferty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ra-lafferty.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ra-lafferty/arrive-at-easterwine

## Quotes

> Oh, come along, reader of the High Journal; if you do not love words, how will you love the communication? How will you forgive me my tropes, communicate the love?

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> True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

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> "Oh, I cannot abide these complacent clods," I exclaim. "I cannot relate to these opulent oafs who are laughing in the streets. They are not high enough or low enough. For my love I must find the poor, the deprived, the fornicators, the addicts, the drunkards, the unwashed, ..."
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> "Oh, these are the poor," the clod told me. "This is the poorest street in town, Index Y-Z. It's hard to tell them apart now except that the poor spend more ostentatiously than the rich do."

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> Gaetan had always had a terrible finality about him. Was this his great sin — that he was already completed? I will intercede for him tonight in my own not entirely mechanical way. To be completed is to be finished in so many ways! May that twinkling man Gaetan be undone a little and saved.

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