Desisting Quotes & Sayings

Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat. — Leonora Carrington

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin. — Ezra Pound

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. — John Updike

You can judge a man by the books in his library. — Mark Skousen

Little flowers get more attention than the big mountains simply because they emit love around themselves! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. — Auguste Rodin

There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can. — Cynthia Kauffman

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.' — Linwood Barclay

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together. — Johnny Cash

Feeling good about yourself is the best sleeping pill of all. — Annika Sorensen

She greeted me very happily and asked if the children had been bad. To me, that was a strange question--in my culture, we expect children to be bad and good, and that parents will teach them the difference. — Mini Aodla Freeman

Hello my lovely, Hello my sweetheart.
Can you see me in the dark?
When you walk alone in the park.
Will you remember the smell of my touch?
Will you know the touch of my breath?
Will you see the pulse of my life?
When you feel the blade of my knife. — Daniel Dark