Comecei A Ser Quotes & Sayings

It considers not only how we relate to others, but how we relate to our ideas of others so that a completely phony, non-human replica of a dead wife can inspire the same feelings that the wife herself once did. That is a peculiarity of humans: We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. Our idea of humanity bewitches us, while humanity itself stays safely sealed away into its billions of separate containers, or people. — Roger Ebert

Lucy Stone wasn't usually a clock watcher. Time didn't pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her. — Leslie Meier

Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. — C.S. Lewis

Pamper the mad man. — Anne Rice

Sometimes surprises are best. — Angie Stanton

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled ... They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact. — H.L. Mencken

At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed two live electric wires into my chest. The wires crossed and exploded, burning me but saving me from electrocution. — Chris Burden

A great relationship was when someone accepted your past, supported your present, and encouraged your future. — Eric Jerome Dickey

[O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274). — Richard Baxter

I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese. — F. Sionil Jose

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit. — James Madison

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff. — Frank Crane