Decaer Lo Quotes & Sayings

The writer seems constrained, not by his own free will but by some powerful and unscrupulous tyrant who has him in thrall, to provide a plot, to provide comedy, tragedy, love interest, and an air of probability embalming the whole so impeccable that if all his figures were to come to life would find themselves dressed down to the last button of their coats in the fashion of the hour. The tyrant is obeyed; the novel is done to a turn. But sometimes, more and more often as time goes by, we suspect a momentary doubt, a spasm of rebellion, as pages fill themselves in the customary way. Is life like this? Must novels be like this? — Virginia Woolf

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning. — Mao Zedong

The fact that human beings are now the only animals left on Earth, I confess, seems a confusing sort of victory. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience. — Bryan Fuller

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum. — Rick Warren

In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child. — Maria Montessori

I really am a believer that 99.99% of all the stories we need, not only as artists but as human beings, not only as writers but as readers, haven't been written yet. Certainly haven't been published yet. — Junot Diaz

Besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. — Bryce Courtenay

When people are infected by my charm, they don't see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting. — Peter Dinklage