Dovlatov Books Quotes & Sayings

The Spirit of holiness and love is also the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge about love; and they are in fact one and the same Spirit: Truth and love are inseparable wings - for truth cannot fly without love - and love cannot hover without truth — Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Macadamia nuts can be fatal to dogs, sometimes causing seizures and kidney failure. — John Richard Stephens

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being. — Frederick Winslow Taylor

You have to be away a long time, a long way, to miss someone like that, and me, I'd been farther away than anyone ought to be for too long plus six weeks. I kissed her and squeezed her until she yelled for mercy, and when I got to where I realized she was yelling we were clear back to the terrace, the whole length of the apartment away from the door. I guess I was sort of enthusiastic, but as I said ... oh, who can say a thing like that and make any sense? — Theodore Sturgeon

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated. — Eve Ensler

The early parent-child environment, the balance between being and doing, lives on in the mind. Mindfulness offers an opportunity to see these patterns clearly. In seeing them, in bringing them into the domain of reflective self-awareness, there is a possibility of emerging from their constraints. Choice emerges where before there was only blind and conditioned behavior. — Mark Epstein

I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys. — Lara Stone

I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud. — Jennifer Beals

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people. — Rickie Lee Jones

Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, it's not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape. — Gyorgy Ligeti

He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh faces and new diversions. — Robert Goolrick

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas. — Shawn Fanning

There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase — Sergei Dovlatov