Desalento Priberam Quotes & Sayings

World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together in mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. And history teaches us that enmities between nations, as between individuals, do not last forever ... — John F. Kennedy

I once heard Don DeLillo quip that a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them. — Mary Karr

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life. — Trina Paulus

It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium. — Lev Grossman

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote

He's light and dark, forgiveness and vengeance, beauty and ugliness. He's all those things. My beautiful savage. — Nina G. Jones

Maybe our grandmothers weren't as stupid as we thought. The family, volunteer work, religion, shaping the hearts and minds of the next generation-maybe all that can't be reduced to just 'shining floors and wiping noses.' — Myriam Miedzian