Doughtys Quotes & Sayings

(what myths of any religion are rational?). — John H. Martin

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor

By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars. — Bhagat Singh

Do not forget to love yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because it's a novel--can't it also be different? — John G. Deaton

It is better to give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him, contesting for the right. — C.W. Abe Lincoln

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work. — Max Hastings

And Kyle says, It's like when I'm with her, all the shit from my past doesn't even matter. Nothing does. I don't think about anything but her. — Jason Myers

Stories are the only things that give any meaning to our pointless, shapeless lives."
"Literature above all is a mode of transport. It lifts you up out of whatever situation you're in and it puts you down somewhere else. It fucking escapes you. That's what literature is."
-Jumping Off a Cliff: An Interview with Kevin Barry, the Paris Review. November 2013 — Kevin Barry

Your are not your past, you are not your future. You are right now. — Matthew Donnelly

Alessa looked at Brennus giving him a smirk.
"Brennus."
"Alessa."
"Still think that you are the God's gift to all faeries?"
"Still trying to convince yourself that I am not?" Brennus responded smirking arrogantly and leaning back in his chair. — B.C. Morin

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious. — Terence McKenna

(For better or for worse, my dad taught me that the best place to pitch a tent will always be the spot marked NO CAMPING.) — Elizabeth Gilbert