Altrichter Sand Quotes & Sayings

My mother went on and on about it. Actually she went off on a tangent, I told her about your mother at one point and she went all (H starts doing a lightly French accent) it is not fair for your friend, she is not going to get the important boredoms and mournings and melancholies that are her due and are owing to her just from being the age that she is, for now it will be interrupted by real mournings and real melancholies ... — Ali Smith

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things. — Jean Rhys

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty. — Carson McCullers

She left the room without looking in the glass. From which we deduce the fact, he said to himself, as if he were writing a novel, that Miss Sarah Pargiter has never attracted the love of men. Or had she? He did not know. These little snapshot pictures of people left much to be desired, these little surface pictures that one made, like a fly crawling over a face, and feeling, here's the nose, here's the brow. — Virginia Woolf

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase. — Christopher Herz

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave. — William James

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done? — Mark Zuckerberg