Confalone Westlake Quotes & Sayings

I did not imagine anyone reading my rambling, ranting stories. I was writing for myself, trying to shape my life outside my terrors and helplessness, to make it visible and real in a tangible way, in the way other people's seemed real
the lives I had read about in books. — Dorothy Allison

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago. — Erica Goros

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do. — Rebecca Miller

The majority of men are curtailed "I's"; what was planned by nature as a possibility capable of being sharpened into an I is soon dulled into a third person. — Soren Kierkegaard

The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought. — Alice Walker