Auvenshine Houston Quotes

#1. Once people see you cry, it's like they own part of you. It's like you ripped a hole in yourself, and they saw through whatever armor you had on, got a good long view of all the screaming alien goop underneath.

Stefan Bachmann

#2. Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

Jose Marti

#3. Lying isn't something you should be proud of, but be grateful if you've gained a talent for doing it correctly.

Kate C. Conner

#4. Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.

Claire Tomalin

#5. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

Charles Bukowski

#6. The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing ... should be taught to every child just as writing is.

John Ruskin

#7. Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

John C. Maxwell

#8. A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

Albert Camus

#9. I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

Gore Vidal

#11. You aren't attractive; you're basically a fat fetish."

Brittany Gibbons