Quotes That Pack a Wallop
Being a girl is so powerful that we have had to train everyone to not be that.
-Eve Ensler, Vagina Monologues
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• How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours.
-Wayne Dyer
• I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable and beautiful
and afraid of nothing as though
I had wings.
-Mary Oliver
• The special significance of a true work of art resides in the fact that it has escaped from the limitations of the personal and has soared beyond the personal concerns of its creator.
-Carl Jung
• Don't confuse honors with achievements.
-Zadie Smith
• There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.
- Walter 'Red' Smith (sports columnist)
• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
-G. K. Chesterton
• Be orderly in your life, and ordinary like a bourgeois, in order to be violent and original in your works.
-Gustave Flaubert
• We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
-Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
• A masterpiece isn’t better rubbish.
-André Malraux
• Suicide note: I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.
-Virginia Woolf
• The goal of good fiction is to make us feel less alone.
-David Foster Wallace
• Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
-Andre Gide
• We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
-Anaïs Nin
• I tell my students that content and form are like a bicycle. Content is one wheel and form the other, and the two need to be equally strong and moving at the same velocity to carry the poem to where it needs to go.
-Layli Long Soldier as quoted by artforum.
• are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
-Kurt Vonnegut
• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anaïs Nin
• A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
~Salman Rushdie
• Do not hurry; do not rest
.- Goethe
• Some people never go crazy,What truly horrible lives they must live.
-Charles Bukowski
• Go back and look at every word and ask yourself if it's true.
-Grace Paley
• One man gathers what another man spills.
-Ken Kesey in a letter to friends about donating his son's organs
• In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-Albert Camus
• My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go
.-Oscar Wilde
• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
-Maya Angelou
• The first draft of anything is shit.
-Ernest Hemingway `
• Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
-Charles Bukowski
• I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.
-Joss Whedon.
• It is almost as if the world gets calm as you keep calm yourself, and vice versa.
-Alan Watts
• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building—it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.”
-John Irving