81a Stpo Quotes & Sayings

I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong. — Karl Ove Knausgard

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision. — Billy Collins

I'm an early-morning owl. — Patrick Wilson

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die. — Ethan Canin

I don't know what they did to him to make him sign, but I know that it must have been something terrible. Everybody thinks so. Everybody's whispering about it, wondering what sort of pressure was used on him. . — Ayn Rand

To give in completely to the instinctual urgings born from individual selection would be to dissolve society. At the opposite extreme, to surrender to the urgings from group selection would turn us into angelic robots - the outsized equivalents of ants. — Edward O. Wilson

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan

His eyes met mine, and I looked into them and I felt ... I don't know what I felt. A strange nameless something I couldn't even identify as a good something or a bad something, could only feel in my gut, jumping and twitching, until I turned away and looked out over the forest — Kelley Armstrong

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man. — Jon Elster

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses. — Alexandre Dumas