Craddick Texas Quotes & Sayings

A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men. — Ernest Hemingway,

I may be fucked up beyond repair, but I can still see the truth. You deserve so much ... you deserve a loving heart and a caring hand, understanding and kind words to erase the false ones. — K.I. Lynn

Could like choking or spanking or domination. God, I hope he likes that shit. — J.A. Huss

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Some of the best advice my aunt gave me was if you want to find out more about something you read. — Amanda Penland

Most important of all: in our anxiety to "improve" the world and insure "progress" we have permitted our schools to become laboratories for social and economic change according to the predilections of the professional educators. We have forgotten that the proper function of the school is to transmit the cultural heritage of one generation to the next generation, and to so train the minds of the new generation as to make them capable of absorbing ancient learning and applying it to the problem of its own day. The — Barry M. Goldwater

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. — Rachel Kushner

And thinking over the long pilgrimage of his past he accepted it joyfully. He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but now he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life. The ridicule and the contempt which had so often been heaped upon him had turned his mind inward and called forth those flowers which he felt would never lose their fragrance. — W. Somerset Maugham