Gushtv Quotes & Sayings

You must live what you wish to receive. — Bryant McGill

His life was unrecorded; who is there to write down the lives of ordinary people? — Alexander McCall Smith

We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us. — Ramona Koval

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away. — Franz Kafka

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up! — Mark Twain