Diski Quotes

#1. ...may I never lose that terror that keeps me brave

Audre Lorde

#2. Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness of the interior and exterior worlds of love and politics. I delighted in the writing and the scope.

Jenny Diski

#3. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.

Tim O'Brien

#4. There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.

Jenny Diski

#5. You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#6. It isn't important what you do, it is the attitude with which you proceed through the world that matters.

Jenny Diski

#7. One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.

Saahil Prem

#8. After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

Adam Michnik

#9. Each year, a shipping publicist told me, 'More oil is poured down the drain by mechanics changing their engine oil than is spilled by the world's fleet of oil tankers.

Rose George

#10. He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

Paul Smith

#12. Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

Jenny Diski

#13. The lack of social support and sympathy is an additional trial: disabled, but with the nature of her disability not clear - she is not, after all, manifestly blind or paralysed, manifestly anything - she tends to be treated as a phoney or a fool.

Oliver Sacks

#14. Everything passes, but nothign entirely goes away.

Jenny Diski

#15. For the most part, quantum theory has been of little practical value in my life.

Jenny Diski

#16. Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

Jenny Diski

#17. The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.

Catherine Lowell

#18. Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

Ben Bova

#19. Once you backslide, strife will enter your life

Sunday Adelaja