Vimercati Furniture Quotes

#1. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Joseph Addison

#2. Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

Jack Vance

#3. At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Samuel Johnson

#4. A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Walter De La Mare

#5. What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind ... The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mannered, congenial.

Natalie Goldberg

#6. Ryone. You go out of your way to make everyone feel special."
"Well, what's wrong with that?"
"How is anyone supposed to know that they are special? How was I supposed to know you weren't just being nice?"
"You can't see that I'm different with you?

Rainbow Rowell

#7. We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object of our need for security.

Stanton Peele

#8. Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

Gore Vidal

#10. And then you realize one day that you can't remember her scent and nothing smells like her anymore. You can't remember how she feels or the sound of her voice. You haven't thought of her every second of every day. Then--then you feel more alone than on the day you lost her.

Desiree Banks

#11. She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.

John Green