Vietek Quotes

#1. The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Alice Munro

#2. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

Joan Didion

#3. The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me.

Ali Smith

#4. Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

Jerry Bridges

#5. Lvov: I need to have a candid talk with you, Nikolay Alekseyevich.
Ivanov: Doctor, if we're going to have a candid talk every day, I haven't the strength for it.

Anton Chekhov

#6. This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

Mark Twain

#7. The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

Sandra Bernhard

#8. Hey, I like this: early nothing.

Gloria Grahame

#9. But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

Randy West

#10. Syn soaped and bathed his body from head to toe. "Can I wash your hair?" "Yes," was all Furi managed to say.

A.E. Via

#11. We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#12. We got to the moon.

Rusty Schweickart

#13. My God, I'd rather go to Europe than go to heaven.

William Merritt Chase