Ennuyeuse Quotes & Sayings

Literary history and the present are dark with silences ... I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences
what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)
that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot. — Tillie Olsen

the lie is a condition of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. — Esther Williams

I don't do game shows. — Trisha Goddard

Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed. — Robert Reich

I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me. — Pierce Brown

There should be celebration rallies when people die ... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death. — Mao Zedong

And finally we get addicted to our sadness. — Avijeet Das

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term. — Michael Schudson

Cheap! But not as cheap as your girlfriend. — Warren Ellis

Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in a week. — Ann Voskamp