It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. You may not appreciate them at first. You may pine for your novel of crude and unadulterated adventure. You may, and will, give it the preference when you can. But the dull days come, and the rainy days come, and always you are driven to fill up the chinks of your reading with the worthy books which wait so patiently for your notice. And then suddenly, on a day which marks an epoch in your life, you understand the difference. You see, like a flash, how the one stands for nothing, and the other for literature. From that day onwards you may return to your crudities, but at least you do so with some standard of comparison in your mind. You can never be the same as you were before. Then gradually the good thing becomes more dear to you; it builds itself up with your growing mind; it becomes a part of your better self, and so, at last, you can look, as I do now, at the old covers and love them for all that they have meant in the past.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: words reading books literature maturity classic-literature
My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail.
Chimnese DavidsTags: words reflective finding-hope
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
Alasdair GrayTags: words writing change goodness good articulation
Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.
Helen OyeyemiTags: words anger swallowing
Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster
Benny BellamacinaTags: wisdom life words words-of-wisdom philisophical wisdom-quote
When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
Diane SetterfieldTags: truth words lies stories
There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.
Mike DooleyTags: words actions thoughts gumption
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tags: words dreams language thoughts
...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.
Sue MillerTags: words while-i-was-gone sue-miller silences
Words are not brains, you know.
Deepak ChopraTags: words words-of-wisdom
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