Cavandoli Quotes & Sayings

How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein? — Jonathan Franzen

Interpreting the Bible without training is a bit like finding a specific address in a foreign city with neither map nor knowledge of the language. You might stumble upon the right answer, but in the meantime you've put yourself at the mercy of every ignoramus in town, with no way of telling the savant from the fool. — Laurie R. King

I fucking hate Thursdays. Most of the time, people focus their hate on Mondays. I wasn't a fan of those either. Mondays are the hall monitors of the week. They tell you to stop enjoying your time off and get back to work. But at least you know where you stand with a Monday. Thursday is a fence sitter on the other hand. It's almost the weekend but not quite there. — Princess Jones

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free. — James Montgomery

I was still blind , but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages. — Novalis

A barbarous practice, the inconsistency, folly, and injury of which no words can sufficiently describe.

[Condemning the use of mercurial medicines.] — Thomas Graham

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you. — Guy Finley

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Two wrong deeds don't make a right, but two fucking awesome ones sure do help. — C.M. Stunich

A perfume ought to punch you right on the nose ... I'm not going to sniff for three days to see if it smell or not? it has to have body, and what gives perfume body is the most expensive thing there is. — Tilar J. Mazzeo

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains. — Paul Simon

All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one. — Dean Koontz

The word on the jar was RELISH. And he was glad he had decided to live. — Ray Bradbury

Hell! His beard grows fast as blazes, like a damp wicket in springtime sun, green, and Rachel's skin is so fine, his bristles can score her red the way a new ball marks a bat, English alum on English unbleached willow, finest quality, special selection, Rachel-grade. Zach, my man, you have cricket on the brain! Thomas has asked him to play on Sunday. Bring Rachel, he said. Thomas 'All Souls' Aubry, gentleman, corinthian at heart, and half French yet more English than a true-born. — Emma Richler