Goronwy Owen Quotes & Sayings

Injury is the thing every exhausting piece of strategy and every single weapon is designed to bring into being: it is not something inadvertently produced on the way to producing something else but is the relentless object of all military activity. — Elaine Scarry

I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior) — Barbara Kingsolver

Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. — Milan Kundera

This was a mutual relationship, mutual on all levels, right from the way it started and all the way through. I don't accept that he had to completely desecrate my character. — Monica Lewinsky

On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. — Annie Dillard