Anteojito Quotes & Sayings

Before Diagnosis"

The lake is dead for a second time
this January. And no matter
how many geese lay their warm breasts
against the ice or fly across
its hard chest, it doesn't break,
or sink, or open up and swallow them.
The ice is frozen water.
There is no metaphor for exile.
Even if these trees continue to shake
the crows from their branches,
my sister is still farther away from her mind
than we are from each other
sitting on opposite ends of a park bench
waiting for evening to swallow us whole.
In the last moments of a depressive, a sun.
In the last moments of a sun, my sister
says a man is chasing a goose through the snow. — Roger Reeves

Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well. — Lee Sharpe

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill. — Moby

History nowadays is not a matter of conviction.
It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so. — Alan Bennett

I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built. — Bristol Palin

The door is always open. You don't think I'd stay locked up in here with a load of mental patients, do you? — Paulo Coelho

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Who is only good that others may know it, and that he may be the better esteemed when 'tis known, who will do well but upon condition that his virtue may be known to men, is one from whom much service is not to be expected. — Michel De Montaigne

Being a writer is like standing naked in the High Street hoping people won't find you ridiculous. — Graham Storrs

I'm kind of a nerd in that I get really excited about things ... I love anticipating if they're going to like their rooms or not. — Paige Davis

If we do nothing but to remove a rock upon which someone might have tripped, though they may never know we did it, is this not our cause, our reason for life? — R. William Bennett

Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characters "do not exist," or in any case do not exist in the same way as do the inhabitants of the real world. But things manifest in an entirely different way on the unconscious level, which is interested not in the ontological differences between worlds but in the effect they produce on the psyche.
Every psychoanalyst knows how deeply a subject can be influenced, and even shaped, sometimes to the point of tragedy, by a fictional character and the sense of identification it gives rise to. This remark must first of all be understood as a reminder that we ourselves are usually fictional characters for other people [ ... ] — Pierre Bayard

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence. — Bob Graham