Famous Quotes Ipsum

Action is eloquence. i could lay here and read all night. i am not able to fall asleep without reading. you have that time when your brain has nothing constructive to do so it rambles. i fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. i just think it's best to do something right up until you fall asleep. the one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. lolita is famous, not i. i am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable last name. poetry does not necessarily have to be beautiful to stick in the depths of our memory. the only thing worth saying is what you really feel. i have not lived as a woman. i've lived as a man. i've just done what i damn well wanted to and i've made enough money to support myself and i ain't afraid of being alone. truth is in the eye of the beholder. the change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. we all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? there are no mistakes, no coincidences. all events are blessings given to us to learn from. our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities, or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidence. compassion can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. adversity is like a strong wind. i don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. it also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to men is felt to be so divine. it brings us nearer to the infinite. the earth laughs in flowers. out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle. they took all the trees / and put them in a tree museum / and they charged all the people / a dollar and a half just to see 'em / don't it always seem to go / that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone / they paved paradise / and put up a parking lot everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. he felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not now where he ended and she began. we grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. thoreau once said most men lead lives of quiet desperation... don't be resigned to that. live life!.

Imagining something is better than remembering something. love is a great beautifier. the moment of change is the only poem. your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. a warm smile is the universal language of kindness. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you some things are true whether you believe them or not..

Not being beautiful was the true blessing.... not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. the pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. poets . . . create from the very depths of the collective unconscious, voicing aloud what others only dream. never joke about a woman's hair, clothes or menstrual cycle. page one. spending time is inevitable. you're going to spend your time doing something. it might as well be something you want to do. i liked how sterile my room was, cleansed of all the emotions that have ever been felt there, all the fights and lovemaking and plain rest of weary travelers wiped clean, leaving no mark on the perfectly made bed. the whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. you teach what you have to learn. it is not necessary to have achieved perfection to speak of perfection. it is not necessary to have achieved mastery to speak of mastery. it is not necessary to have achieved the highest level of evolution to speak of the highest level of evolution. seek only to be genuine. strive to be sincere. loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good..