Bonawitz Genealogy Quotes & Sayings

People are afraid that if they let go of their anger and righteousness and wrath, and look at their own feelings-and even see the good in a bad person-they're going to lose the energy they need to do something about the problem. But actually you get more strength and energy by operating from a place of love and concern. You can be just as tough, but more effectively tough. — Robert Thurman

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places. — Morley Callaghan

He ate with all the restraint of a nymphomaniac at an orgy. — Thaddeus White

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. — Charles Baudelaire

I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way. — Dan Chaon

Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?"
"Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. — Paulo Coelho

Learning what really makes a dog like him tick had forced me to grasp more about what made me tick. I often didn't like what I saw in me, but I was determined to do right by him. Which meant, as Carolyn had suggested, that I had to be better. Orson, like all my dogs, was a measure, a barometer, a mirror of me. — Jon Katz