Guinerie Quotes & Sayings

The cleaning is something I use as a reward if I get some work done. I go into a very happy state of mind when I'm vacuuming. — Joyce Carol Oates

The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. — Albert Schweitzer

I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness. — Euginia Herlihy

I won't be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats come down where they should, last as long as they should, end where they should, and that should come from somewhere real and natural, not from the tyranny of the theatre, the utter hegemony of fiction. — Catherynne M Valente

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism. — Gore Vidal