Doument Quotes & Sayings

Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor. — Marcel Proust

The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be. — Abraham Lincoln

My daughter Penelope has just looked over my shoulder to see what I have done so far. She remarks that it is beautifully written, and every word of it true. But she points out one objection. She says what I have done so far isn't in the least what I was wanted to do. I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond and, instead of that, I have been telling the story of my own self. Curious, and quite beyond me to account for. I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me? If they do, I can feel for them. In the meantime, here is another false start, and more waste of good writing-paper. What's to be done now? Nothing that I know of, except for you to keep your temper, and for me to begin it all over again for the third time. — Wilkie Collins

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. — Matthew Arnold

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible. — Marcus Aurelius