Henriksson And Merton Quotes

#1. Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

William Hazlitt

#2. A foreign language can signify a total separation. It can represent, even today, the ferocity of our ignorance. To write in a new language, to penetrate its heart, no technology helps. You can't accelerate the process, you can't abbreviate it. The

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

#4. When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

John Green

#5. The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. The dead would not want to be remembered in a way that caused such pain to the living.

Hazel Hunter

#7. Dear Dick, I'm wondering why every act that narrated female lived experience in the '70s has been read only as "collaborative" and "feminist.

Chris Kraus

#8. I don't want to be smart, because being smart makes you depressed.

Andy Warhol

#9. Depression ... so mysteriously painful and elusive ...

William Styron

#10. My fans are the best; I love hanging with them.

Blake Shelton

#11. I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

James Taylor

#12. And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There's peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave.

Michael Davidow