As I Lay Dying Addie Quotes & Sayings

The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write. — Dan Aykroyd

When you have trained your mind and your nerves to realise this idea of the world's nondependence on you or on anybody, there will then be no reaction in the form of pain resulting from work. — Swami Vivekananda

Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner. — Christopher Love

Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud? — Haruki Murakami

If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it". — Anne Carson

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. — John Webster

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty ... pretty British in our entertainment leads. — Graeme Murphy

All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial and theatrical, yet designed to suggest the inevitability and absolute truth of their messages. Dangerous because when we are not convinced by a ritual we may become aware of ourselves as having made them up, thence on the paralyzing realization that we have made up all our truths; our ceremonies, our most precious conceptions and convictions - all are mere inventions. — Barbara Myerhoff

Existence is tedious, anyway. — Anton Chekhov

A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own. — Rick Riordan