Hilst Quotes

#1. Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

Benjamin Moser

#2. Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

William Ralph Inge

#3. Everyone living around this lake thinks I'm crazy, and if we go back to the police with this story, then the news that Elinor Loredan has finally flipped will be all over the place. Which just goes to show that a passion for books is extremely unhealthy.

Cornelia Funke

#4. My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

Frances Stark

#5. I just gotta keep reminding myself: Every time I do an interview or something, my volition really has to be just to serve, to help people. Not to feel like I'm important.

Rivers Cuomo

#6. Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

James D. Watson

#7. I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Annie Lennox

#8. Third tale (aka short stories) - His name is Sun and Adultery. My husband's is Elias. My children are named Enilson and Joaquim. I want them all to die. Except him. (That first one, light and bed.) I'm very sorry, my God, but there it is. Signed: Lazinha.

Hilda Hilst

#9. At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

Francesca Lia Block

#10. Under the long and discurtained ordeal of the morrow's dawn, that

Henry James

#11. God? A surface of ice anchored to laughter. That was God.

Hilda Hilst

#12. Perhaps it's human nature, or just corporate nature, but most people tend to think incrementally rather than transformationally or galactically.

Eric Schmidt

#13. Porfiry smoked with professional determination.

R.N. Morris

#14. Abel was arrested. So was the guy with me. Help me get Delia out of the trunk."
His expression borders on horror.
"Well, you knew you'd have to let her out eventually when you put her in there, didn't you?

Rysa Walker

#15. I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Jo Brand

#16. I wanted to escape, Ehud, my mouth constantly starved for your mouth, life was splendor and marvel, unparalleled glimmer when you touched me, and sinister and hiccuping and nothingness when you were abscent

Hilda Hilst

#17. People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

Omar Epps

#18. This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.

Frank Herbert

#19. Be a loving soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita