Arcadia Important Quotes & Sayings

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps. — Frantz Fanon

And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway trains, in offices, in mirrors, in love, especially in love, for the self of him that is there, someplace, in every other human. Love was not to give oneself, but find oneself, describe oneself. — James Jones

The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons. — David Vann

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches! — Chinua Achebe

When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous. — R. Murray Schafer

The real source of "stress" is actually internal; it is not external, as people would like to believe. — David R. Hawkins

It's not about being a sex prostitute. It's about this power play in the war of the sexes. It's a rat race, like, "I'm in charge," "No, I'm in charge." — Lykke Li

You look all elegant and sleek, like some golden and black cat. Then you go all ghetto on me when a pretty book shakes its ass in front of you. — Rhys Ford

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion. — Harold Wilson

I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first appears. — Marcel Proust

That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass, To untell the days. — Thomas Heywood