Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am.
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.
Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]
You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.
If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me.
There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.
Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!" “But no living man am I!
Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!
Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.
The Bible is big in the religion, treating people as you want to be treated.
'Another Brooklyn' came to me in this kind of dreamlike series of vignettes.
...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.
I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time strewberries melts On the vine.
Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
Dominants often make excellent submissives. They know the rules of the game.
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.
The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.
Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
As a child, I spent a lot of summers going to the beach with family friends.
I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.
The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.
Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.