What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?
G.F. SmithTags: inspiration religion science-fiction literary metaphysics paranormal time-travel alternative-history
I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.
Hollace M. MetzgerTags: inspirational art interview literary quote hollace-m-metzger
I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.
Mo WillemsTags: libraries books obvious literary library sage-advice
Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did it necessitate the sombre and monotonous dirge of software, priority banking or turbine building.
Anita NairTags: writing literary significance monotony professions
Personal faintness, and an overpowering personal candour, were the distinguishing features of Mrs Billickin’s organization. She came languishing out from her own exclusive back parlour, with the air of having been expressly brought-to for the purpose, from an accumulation of several swoons.
Charles DickensListen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.
Jonathan EvisonTags: inspirational literary
I've been thinking about all the things I might have done differently. All the choices I didn't make. All the decisions that made and unmade me, all the actions and inactions I did or didn't take. With the shades drawn and the garbage overflowing, I've been thinking about all the bold steps I never took, all the gut instincts I didn't listen to, all the people I let down. I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums and wishing I'd shown my work.
Jonathan EvisonTags: inspirational literary
Taxi-drivers in Frankfurt are said to dislike the annual Book Fair because literary folk, instead of being shuttled to prostitutes like respectable members of other convening professions, prefer to stay in their hotels and fuck one another
Julian BarnesNobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.
Salman RushdieTags: history war religion free-speech literary memoir secularism terrorism aristotle fatwa averroës ibn-rushd
Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.
Damyanti BiswasTags: love romance literary crime flash-fiction
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