Doppelter Windsor Quotes

#1. Long have you timidly waded
Holding a plank by the shore,
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea,
Rise again, nod to me, shout,
And laughingly dash with your hair.

Walt Whitman

#2. As to why people like Joseph Lelyveld are writing memoirs, I think they're just catching on the coattails of the trend.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#3. When we are eager to be shy and humble about our accomplishments, we lose confidence in our abilities.

Claire Shipman

#4. Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You can do it again. If your house burned down with all your work inside it, you would still be the writer you are, and you would continue to be worth something.

J. Robert Lennon

#5. If You Should Go
Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
When it has slipped away.
Go quietly; a dream,
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer's face.

Countee Cullen

#6. Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

B.F. Skinner

#7. In the days that followed, the Baudelaire orphans had pits in their stomachs. In Sunny's case it was understandable, because when Klaus had divided the peach, she had gotten the part with the pit.

Lemony Snicket

#8. For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley