Gombrowicz Wikipedia Quotes

#1. You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Margaret Weis

#2. If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Tony Verna

#3. It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!

Jane Goldman

#4. I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine.

Lauren Myracle

#5. And the thing I hate the most is knowing how much hinges on my reaction, how your unburdening can only lead to me being burdened.

David Levithan

#6. Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.

Bob Woodward

#7. There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.

Toba Beta

#8. It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

John Irving

#9. There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.

Clifford Odets

#10. Sport allows people to come together, but politics divides people.

Francois Hollande

#11. The very air seemed grey and green and still.

George R R Martin