Erling Quotes

#1. In Erling Nicolai Rolfsrud's compendium of memorable women and men from North Dakota, "Mustache" Maude Black, for that was the name of my grandparents' benefactress, is described as not un-womanly, though she dressed mannishly, smoked, drank, was a crack shot and a hard-assed camp boss. These

Louise Erdrich

#2. Canadian stereotypes. "In the east they are less polite than in the west.

Estelle Ryan

#3. Our heartache poured into one another like water from cup to cup.

Alice Sebold

#4. When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.

Tsem Tulku

#5. Speed is simply the rite that initiates us into
emptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia for living forms that haunts geometry.

Jean Baudrillard

#6. No people. You get close to them, and they die or disappear. You kiss them, just for fun, and they tie you to the bed and steal your creds. They're messy. Stupid. Foolish.

Delilah S. Dawson

#7. I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

Kevin Brockmeier

#8. The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Friedrich Nietzsche