I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.
Salvador PlascenciaTags: literature fiction salvador-plascencia the-people-of-paper
It was. It will never be again. Remember.
Paul AusterTags: literature quotes paul-auster
Whom boasts about his happiness, cause doesn't got it!
VálgameTags: poetry society literature
So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down on the world she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody had ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. She often spoke to falling seeds and said, 'Ah hope you fall on soft ground,' because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
Zora Neale HurstonTags: literature fiction their-eyes-were-watching-god zora-neale-hurston
The stories are not made, they are discovered.
Chandan SharmaTags: inspirational writers literature book
We create words, words create wonders.
Chandan SharmaTags: words writers stories literature literature-quotes
Literature wasn’t intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws.
Erin McCarthyTags: literature
A man [Joyce] whose earliest stories appeared next to the manure prices in the Irish Homestead knew that columns of prose, like columns of shit, could both recultivate the earth.
Declan KiberdTags: literature fiction ulysses joyce james-joyce
If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me
VálgameTags: society literary-criticism literature
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting
Erich Maria RemarqueTags: inspirational truth reality war literature germany soldiers west world-war-2 world-war indignation all-quiet-on-the-western-front
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