Ficta Endle Quotes & Sayings

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America. — Terry Gross

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. — William Hazlitt

In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence. — Neil Gaiman

Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me. — Charles Bukowski

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life. — Roland Barthes

When a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what brought them along. The hard beginnings were forgotten and the struggles farther along. They became satisfied with themselves. Unity and common understanding there had been, enough to overcome rot and dissolution, enough to break through their obstacles. But the mockers came. And the deniers were heard. And vision and hope faded. And the custom of greeting became "What's the use?" And men whose forefathers would go anywhere, holding nothing impossible in the genius of man, joined the mockers and the deniers. They lost sight of what brought them along. — Carl Sandburg

Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good. — Jose Padilha

I have no two separate moral standards for the sex. — Caroline Wells Healey Dall

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution. — T.F. Hodge