Christine Lemmon Quotes

#1. Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,

Janet Malcolm

#2. The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

Jack Schwartz

#3. There are those times when a woman fears she is on the brink of extinction or that the dreams and wants she had for her life are endangered. It is then she must declare herself a refuge and take whatever measures to preserve her natural elements."--Portion of the Sea

Christine Lemmon

#4. What would I do if I weren't afraid? Haw

Spencer Johnson

#5. If they really wanted us to resist temptation, they shouldn't a made it so damn tempting.

Lois Greiman

#6. Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. He chuckles. It's dark and humorless. "You'll learn, Bunny. I'm a liar. A bad fucking man. The monster you feared as a child. You're my new toy now - to do with whatever the fuck I please.

K. Webster

#8. Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.

John Gould Fletcher

#9. I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

James Madison

#10. Those of us who make up poems have agreed not to say what the pain is.

Robert Bly