Ameripolitan Festival Quotes & Sayings

No, I won't do it. I will not be locked into your head in this way. I will not participate in this drama for the sake of your fiction. Oh, darling, the hell with your fiction. — Philip Roth

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people. — Gail Godwin

He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name. — Maya Angelou

Control is an illusion - a fact you will learn very fast if you become ill, or have things fall apart in some other way. When we understand vulnerability and suffering as an essential part of being human, our individual fate can be easier to manage. — Harriet Lerner