Bendata Quotes & Sayings

Ah no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience. — Edith Wharton

...the act of remembering is imagined as a real act, that is, as a physical act: as walking...the means of retrieving the stored information was walking through the rooms like a visitor in a museum...to walk the same route again can mean to think the same thoughts again, as though thoughts and ideas were indeed fixed objects in a landscape one need only know how to travel through. In this way, walking is reading, even when both the walking and reading are imaginary, and the landscape of the memory becomes a text as stable as that to be found in the garden, the labyrinth, or the stations. — Rebecca Solnit

I am the best damn ass-kicker in the whole U.S. Army! — George S. Patton

Writers don't choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world. — Alice Hoffman

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise. — Susanna Tamaro

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. — Robert Frost

What if a wizard was sent to kill him?"
"Well, as to that," Desmond replied, drawing his.longsword, "wizards die the same as the other men, once you cut their heads off. — George R R Martin