But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: fiction russian-literature 19th-century russian
There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call of a bird. Other objects are made up of many elements—the sun, the water against the swimmer's chest, the vague quivering pink which one sees when the eyes are closed, the feeling of being swept away by a river or by sleep. These second degree objects can be combined with others; using certain abbreviations, the process is practically an infinite one. There are famous poems made up of one enormous word, a word which in truth forms a poetic object, the creation of the writer. The fact that no one believes that nouns refer to an actual reality means, paradoxically enough, that there is no limit to the numbers of them.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: truth reality language fiction
Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.
Christopher MorleyTags: fiction pretending kitty-foyle
I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.
Virginia WoolfTags: empowerment equality gender opportunities poetry women dreams fiction feminism self-determination aspirations dignity social-norms women-writers
Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant
Christos R. TsiailisTags: death fiction rome thriller athens masonry masons nano-robotics omniconstant tube
Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.
Ian MartinTags: fiction south-africa social-satire black-humour
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.
Nicholas SparksTags: reality romance fiction nicholas-sparks bhie message-in-a-bottle
That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.
Walter MoersTags: fantasy fiction fantasy-young-adult
Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.
Kathleen McGowanThe only sweeter than union is reunion.
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