Gdml 2011 Quotes

#1. know your ignorance; defile your ignorance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#2. When you're the only person who could have created a work of art, the competition and standard metrics by which things are measured become irrelevant because nothing can replace you. The factors that distinguish you are so personal than nobody can replicate them.

Srinivas Rao

#3. Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Arundhati Roy

#4. If you kill him, call me. I'm bound by doctor client privilege.
Really?
No, but the courts make exceptions for assholes.

Alex Adams

#5. Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

Karen Hawkins

#6. Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Anne Lamott

#7. There is truth in stories," said Arthur. "There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.

Cassandra Clare

#8. It won't hurt me. This will be scary, but it won't hurt me--But fear hurt, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. The monster you lie with is your own. The struggle is endlessly private. I thought it was over. That one night the beast at my back would squeeze more tightly and I would cease breathing. What remained of me hoped for it.

Adam Haslett

#10. If life is really for the living, then the trick to living well is to learn to live it fully, to soak it up, to revel in it.

Joan D. Chittister

#11. Oh, call my brother back to me!I cannot play alone:The summer comes with flower and bee,-Where is my brother gone?

Felicia Hemans