Chueca Chat Quotes

#1. A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

Nan Fairbrother

#2. Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana

#3. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

Ernie Harwell

#4. My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

Ishmael Reed

#5. They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Robert Southey

#6. Wall, digging a tunnel under the border, or taking to the water to swim

Hester Vaizey

#7. In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#8. What it comes down to is that unless you tell me you still love him, there is nothing we can't work out.

Kim Karr