Famous Quotes Ipsum

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. imagining something is better than remembering something. it's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it. don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you. 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. writers aren't people exactly. or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. it's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. who lean backward trying--only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. he had a word, too. love, he called it. but i had been used to words for a long time. i knew that that word was like the other, just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear. it seems that whatever goes into my mouth makes me fat, just as whatever comes out of it embarrasses me. a single sun shines here and in the land where i was born, though we call it by different names. in the realm of idea, the great principles behind the forms that we see are the same. you're never fully dressed without a smile. history is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. doing. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. we say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. it never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. i discovered i scream the same way whether i'm about to be devoured by a great white or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. there exists a passion for comprehension, just as there is a passion for music. that passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most of us later on. never judge a book by its movie. 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. you can't help respecting anybody who can spell tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right. when you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. maybe that's not exactly how it happened. but that's the way it should have happened. and that's the way i like to remember it. years ago i discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. i glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all. live simply, but be complicated. to look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. at last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.....

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. it took me too long to realize / that i don't take good pictures / 'cause i have the kind of beauty / that moves if the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. this is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. ordinary people believe only in the possible. extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. and by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. the whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. listening four or five times a day to newscasters and commentators, reading the morning papers and all the weeklies and monthlies - nowadays this is described as 'taking an interest in politics'. st. john of the cross would have called it indulgence in idle curiosity and the cultivation of disquietude for disquietude's sake. so since i've been home, i've learned two important things: ethernet is a gift from god, and it just doesn't sound the same to listen to the indigo girls without two people singing along. 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. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. what is to give light must endure burning. out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle. i know that a life without love is no life at all. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. 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 greatest complexity is the greatest simplicity. the more "complex" a system is, the more simple is its design. indeed, it is utterly elegant in its simplicity. the master understands this. that is why a highly evolved being lives in utter simplicity. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all..