Emeraude Pierre Quotes & Sayings

The book [Joyce's "Ulysses"] can just as well be read backwards, for it has no back and no front, no top and no bottom. Everything could easily have happened before, or might have happened afterwards. You can read any of the conversations just as pleasurably backwards, for you don't miss the point of the gags. Every sentence is a gag, but taken together they make no point. You can also stop in the middle of a sentence
the first half still makes sense enough to live by itself, or at least seems to. The whole work has the character of a worm cut in half, that can grow a new head or a new tail as required. — C. G. Jung

I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world. — Oprah Winfrey

If you feel yourself to be a full member in the world, you probably won't turn to writing, because other methods of communication, more direct methods, will strike you as being more available. — Margot Livesey

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths ... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that ... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is ... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up. — Jennifer Donnelly

An answer seeks to dissolve the question, a response recognizes the ongoing validity of the question, and seeks to remain in connection with it. — Lama Surya Das

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does. — Philip Pullman

It feels good to come here and be a winning program. — Kevin Durant

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially? — Ding Ling

Snake in the grass, peekaboo I see you ... through you I see ... you cannot hide from me. — Jayce O'Neal