Fitzcarraldo Editions Quotes & Sayings

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall. — Marlena De Blasi

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him. — Lucretia Mott

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information, — Eric Schmidt

I smiled at these books every time I saw them on my shelves. In many ways I sill feel like an incomplete person, but at least I had those books; I was more complete than anyone unlucky enough not to have them. — Josh Hanagarne

If you don't want to know someone, then you will never really know them. — Daisuke Hagiwara

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists. — Nikita Khrushchev

So instead of a bra, what do you think I wore for support, intergalactically? Gaffer's tape. — Carrie Fisher

Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived ... "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them." — Thomas Paine

Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.] — Horace

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. — Jerry Saltz

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. — Jose Marti

I'm sick of wasting time on things that don't matter. — Alexandra Bracken

How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself? — Kimberly Lauren