Famous Quotes Ipsum

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. there has never been an answer. there never will be an answer. that's the answer. two paths diverged in a wood, and i - i took the one less traveled by. and that has made all the difference. i mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping. the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. no man's life is ordinary to himself..

I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but i know that it does. it is indirect - like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. it is not always deliberate - like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets. but it does have an effect on the cosmos. before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. the act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded. a new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting..

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. try to be better than yourself. the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart. everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. one of the impressive qualities of charlotte brontë's heroines, the quality that makes them more valuable to the woman reader than anna karenina, emma bovary, and catherine earnshaw combined is their determined refusal to be romantic. the one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. i am a woman committed to / a politics / of transliteration, the methodology / of a mind / stunned at the suddenly / possible shifts of meaning - for which / like amnesiacs / in a ward on fire, we must / find words / or burn the heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. many people think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction life desires or wills, but really, we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we realize this fact. man is responsible for his rise and fall. never during its pilgrimage is the spirit of man completely adrift and alone. from start to finish its nucleus is the atman - the self - luminous abiding point, boundless as the sky, indivisible, absolute, the only reality. when i have a terrible need of - shall i say the word? - religion, then i go out and paint the stars. religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong? the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. 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. i preach there are all kinds of truths, your truth and somebody else's. but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. a wizard is never late. nor is he early. he arrives precisely when he means to. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. art thou pale for weariness / of climbing heaven and gazing on earth / wandering companionless....