Dhondup Wangchen Quotes & Sayings

I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened to you since my last visit?" Azalea tells me what happened to her. She has covered a sofa, and written a novel. Jack has behaved badly. Roger has lost his job (replaced by an electric eye). Gigi's children are in the hospital being detoxified, all three. Azalea herself is dying of love. I stroke her buttocks, which are perfection, if you can have perfection, under the capitalistic system. "It is better to marry that to burn," St. Paul says, but St. Paul is largely discredited now, for the toughness of his views does not accord with the experience of advanced industrial societies. — Donald Barthelme

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness. — Walter Savage Landor

And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid. — Robin Hobb

Between the subject and the object lies the value. — Robert M. Pirsig

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. — Jacques Pepin

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone. — Morgan Matson

Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that? — Felix J. Palma

The sunk-cost fallacy keeps people for too long in poor jobs, unhappy marriages, and unpromising research projects. — Daniel Kahneman

People write me letters and say I should answer them. But I don't like to answer letters. I don't write letters. I've never written my mother one. — Todd Rundgren

Because we're soul mates, just like Aristophanes described- one soul in two bodies. You're my missing half. You're my bashert. — Sylvain Reynard

A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you. — Charles Manson

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too! — Ashley Madekwe