Quote of the Day – Truman Capote
Intellectually, I am a hitchhiker who gathers his education along highways and under bridges. - Truman Capote ‘Answered Prayers’
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Quote of the Day – Muriel Spark
March 12, 2011
Oh, the trifles, the people, that get on your nerves when you have a neurosis! -Muriel Spark
Quote of the Day – Joan Didion
March 2, 2011
We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the “ideas” with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience. - Joan Didion (‘The White Album’)
Quote of the Day – Anne Michaels
February 23, 2011
Another gradually unfolding revelation, courtesy of Craft & Experimentation. This from Fugitive Pieces. Look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful. - Anne Michaels
Quote of the Day – Muriel Spark
February 19, 2011
How’s this for some flat-out incredible description? Unencumbered youth who swing and thread through the crowds like antelopes whose heads, invisibly antlered, are airborne high to sniff the prevailing winds, and who so appear to own the terrain beneath their feet that they never look at it. –Muriel Spark (from ‘The Driver’s Seat’)
Quote of the Day – Epictetus
February 17, 2011
I wish I believed this right now. Do nothing in the spirit of one burdened and afflicted, no one compels you to this… the door is open. –Epictetus
Quote of the Day – Muriel Spark
February 14, 2011
She’s not supposed to give us freedom, she’s supposed to give us lessons. – Muriel Spark ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’
Quote of the Day – Albert Camus
February 13, 2011
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth. — Albert Camus
Quote of the Day – Abraham Lincoln
February 12, 2011
In honour of Lincoln’s birthday, a quote I misread at first When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion. I thought it said: when I feel good, I do good. When I feel bad, I do bad. That version makes a lot of sense. There is… [Read more…]
Quote of the Day – Thucydides
February 9, 2011
To a man of spirit, cowardice and disaster coming together are far more bitter than death striking him unperceived at a time when he is full of courage. – Thucydides
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