Lyctus Linearis Quotes

#1. For all we know, we know nothing.

Terence McKenna

#2. Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Confucius

#3. Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Leo Rosten

#4. I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

Harlan Ellison

#5. I meant every word of it, Dylan Day. Lie to me and I'll cut your cock off and pickle it.

Kitty French

#6. I'm the guy who checks the weather report every day hoping for a thunderstorm.

J. Tonzelli

#7. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years
to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of it, and at last the indifference because any one would.

Gerald Stanley Lee

#9. A music attends the things of the earth. To sense that music is to be near the possibility of health and joy.

Wendell Berry

#10. Jesper always felt better when people were shooting at him. It wasn't that he liked the idea of dying (in fact, that potential outcome was a definite drawback), but if he was worrying about staying alive, he couldn't be thinking about anything else.

Leigh Bardugo

#11. But you have to let go of the past first or you won't believe a word she says.

Brenda Novak