Japonskie Quotes

#1. Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Boyishness - by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.

Thomas Hughes

#3. War was war and soldiers were the same the world over, although killing came easier to some than others.

Sharon Kay Penman

#4. Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Alwin Nikolais

#5. While my seemingly compulsive school-hopping has raised some eyebrows among my peers and caused my parents understandable consternation, I do not regret it.

Alexandra Adornetto

#6. Discarding doubt is a decision to reconnect to your original self.

Wayne Dyer

#7. The Internet has killed the traditional record business, but it's given back in the way of instant access.

James Young

#8. Nostalgia lurks, ready to ooze from ambush.

Thomas Pynchon

#9. He said, You know, whoever hurt you
dies every time they look in the mirror.
That is how they pay."
She crossed her arms.
"And one day, Maria, you will die too,
but there's no reason for you to die
every day.

Toby Barlow

#10. Fade to black. Or whatever color you like. If you can find a way to fade to pink or purple, please do.

David Levithan

#11. For ages that stagger the imagination this earth spun hot and lifeless, and again for ages of equal vastness it held no life above the level of the animalculae in a drop of ditch-water. Not only is Space from the point of view of life and humanity empty, but Time is empty also.

H.G.Wells

#12. Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.

Kent Haruf