Famous Quotes Ipsum

Once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. i try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time. a pain stabbed my heart as it did every time i saw a girl i loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world..

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. 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. does a hero know she's a hero if no one tells her? do you know a hero no one else knows? a hero doesn't have to save a busload of school kids from certain disaster; or score the winning point in the big game. a hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to ,anyone who cheers you on, makes you feel better than you were before - just as they made themselves better then they were before. do you know a hero? tell her. then tell everyone else. you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. 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. there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.' it is not upon you alone the dark patches fall. 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. at the worst i accepted hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. if we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love. i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go.

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. the way i see it, the men that i'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that i like ice cream, and i know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. go away. toodles. it is non-negotiable. to read a writer, for me, is not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. when i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. the change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully. her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin. when you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. there is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. when the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate. i mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping. janis joplin taught me about passion. the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. 'the horror of that moment,' the king went on,' i shall never, never forget!'<p> but you will,' the queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'</p> the fact is, i was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the french would say: i was conscious that at moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go to all lengths. 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. if any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after awhile, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? thoreau once said most men lead lives of quiet desperation... don't be resigned to that. live life!.