Anterior Drawer Quotes

#1. We are all on loan to each other and nothing belongs to us.

Marty Rubin

#2. I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.

John Mortimer

#3. I have a high tolerance for discomfort.

Andrea Corr

#4. If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. Hemingway used to write an ending to his novel only to delete it, asserting that it made the story stronger because the reader would always be able to intuit the ghost of that final, incorporeal passage.

Jessica Knoll

#6. I don't love the phrase 'balancing work and family.' It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

Norah O'Donnell

#7. Grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know.

Patti Smith

#9. Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

James Laver

#10. When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

Maurice Gibb