Daizaburo Shizuka Quotes

#1. There is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel.

Lawrence Block

#2. These days you don't need a country to have a flag, you don't need to win an election to become president, and you don't need an enemy to have a war.

Marshall Thornton

#3. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Frederick Douglass

#4. The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Jeremiah Wright

#5. Space is dark but, of course, when we're on the sun side of the Earth, we're in full illumination and we have all the reflection of the Earth below us, beautiful blue Earth and we're in daylight. Only on the back side, opposite side of the sun, it seems like night to us, too.

Kevin A. Ford

#6. A poem is an instant of lucidity in which
the entire organism participates.

Charles Simic

#7. Ma'am, please," the older man said, sparing a brief glance up at the heavens. "If I may, I would far prefer death by harpoon to death by grappling hook. Less of a mess for the men to clean up after, believe me.

Alexandra Bracken

#8. ... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

C. G. Jung

#9. Sometimes you get an image of someone stuck in your head and then you can't let go of it even after they show you they've changed. All you can see is that one side of them.

Rebecca Phillips

#10. Speaking of important things, there are so many battles right now that people are fighting for that it's overwhelming, but I am always in favor of people who crusade for the sake of people's hearts and their well-being. That is what is important.

Drew Barrymore