Atr Vete Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive — Ursula K. Le Guin

Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was real or imagined? What mattered was that the detail seemed real, and that it was absolutely the best detail for the circumstance. That wasn't much of a theory, but it was all Ruth could truly commit herself to at the moment. It was time to retire that old lecture, and her penance was to endure the compliments of her former credo. — John Irving

You know what shows today are missing? Stars. — Aaron Spelling

It was a dizzying prospect - to imagine all that freedom, to understand how little it mattered what choice he made. — Paul Auster

Let's pretend," he says, "that you
never met me. That she was never born.
That none of this ever happened." Then
he is gone. — Celeste Ng

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things. — Martin Luther

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. — Mahatma Gandhi

I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a nigger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America. — Harry Truman