Ajarin Quotes & Sayings

The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost. — Thomas Pynchon

Write when you least feel like it,
Because that's when you write best. — Nema Al-Araby

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often. — John Kruk

From this moment, I reclaim my life. I will live for myself and for those I love. And if Asherah doesn't like it, she can smite me. (Char) — L.K. Rigel

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it. — D.H. Lawrence

I then completely gave up reading newspapers and watching television, which freed up a considerable amount of time (say one hour or more a day, enough time to read more than a hundred additional books per year, which, after a couple of decades, starts mounting). — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen. — Tracy Kidder

We" is always so much better than "I". — Jose N. Harris

Strike had recently helped several wealthy young women rid themselves of City husbands who had become much less attractive to them since the financial crash. There was something appealing about restoring a husband to a wife, for a change. — Robert Galbraith

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look. — James Vance

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. — Kevin Kelly

From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Oliver felt much more than sorry for Alice. His heart had grown ten sizes since he'd met her, and the hours he'd lost her had nearly broken him. — Tahereh Mafi

You can't be trying to be funny. As an adult actor, sometimes I'll muddle it up by over-thinking things. — David Walton