5 Quotes Tagged: cannery-row

It is the hour of pearl — the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.

Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug.

He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row

And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth, must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys. Virtues and graces and laziness and zest. Our Father who art in nature.