Garou Sous Le Quotes & Sayings

As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything. — Rachel Cusk

I don't know how many [South Africans] with HIV would want to take anti-retrovirals. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are. — Virginia Woolf

My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents. — Anthony Marra

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile. — Walt Disney

The bird rocked free from its blocks and carried them down the tarmac, away from their homes and families and dogs and cats and to a land that didn't want them. — Ross Ritchell

Room service. You like me fluff pillow? — Triple H

Kindness is the queen of charity. — Matshona Dhliwayo

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects. — Darin Strauss