Allius Barnes Quotes & Sayings

Dwell in possibility — Emily Dickinson

I don't really ask of myself a given word or page count or number of hours. To work every day, that's my only fetish. And there is a physical quality to it when a novel is thriving. — Jonathan Lethem

The man with courage is a majority. — Andrew Young

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. — Enid Bagnold

I learned that the only thing more unifying to a group of Miamians than a hurricane is the fear that a homeless clinic might move into their neighborhood. — Pedro Jose Greer Jr.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless. — Norman Spinrad

I turned to love and love said, Don't trip, I'm still here and stop trying to fool yourself, I ain't going nowhere. You'll always have me. — Stanley Christopher

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left. — Oliver Platt

[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. — John Paul Stevens

Your religion of origin has such a bone-deep hold on you that, as with a native language, it's your only hope for true religious fluency. — George A. Lindbeck

(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips) — E. E. Cummings