327 quotes found
“The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.”
“I want to sling a stone, a small rock into a pool, see it ripple. I want to shake a tree, create a small storm..”
“The landscape is bathed in the honeyed light of morning. Sometimes the memory of winter comes again. And my days are colored reveries of you, my nights sensuous”
“His lone withdrawing figure blended anonymously with the darkness, Dr Raven's quick, light steps becoming gradually distant, drowned out by the clicking staccato rush of trains, the steady drip of ...”
“Writing is...creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin”
“She hands me an ornament of The Virgin Mary. "Pray to the Holy Mary, Mother of God!" I notice she has a gold chain round her neck. It has the holy cross and a shamrock”
“I was walking home alone from school and I was wearing a dress. A dude drove by and yelled, "Nice tits." Embarrassed and enraged, I screamed after him, "Suck my dick.”
“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life, the same authorities have decided, has nothing whatever to do with ...”
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.”
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.”
“Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?”
“I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect.If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own greatness, no one else will. You’re limited only by your doubts, your fears, ...”
“—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.”
“It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie," says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.”
“Fake boobs are weird ya'll" read by Patrick Stewart.”
“She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband “alive” in her memory—elusive, teasing.”
“Nor do I like being told upsetting news—unless there is a good reason. I can’t help but feel that there is an element of cruelty, if not sadism, in friends telling one another upsetting things for ...”
“How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.”
“But I was eventually okay. And you will be okay too. Here's why. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot...”
“It is the most horrific thought—my husband died among strangers.”
