Exercicios Quotes & Sayings

We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears. — Alan W. Watts

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams. — Kate Bush

The Word of God has a supernatural edge with which a million-dollar budget can never compete. — Joseph Stowell

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. — Lillian Gish

How can you be alienated without first having been connected? — Donald Barthelme

That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness ... That's all, it took him an hour to work that out. — William Gaddis

Then he heard a wild, high-pitched cackling that made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. It wasn't sane, that laugh. In fact, it was the laughter of someone who never had more than a nodding acquaintance with sanity. — Mercedes Lackey

I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act. — Michael Cunningham