Kotlikoff 2021 Quotes & Sayings

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. — Edmund Burke

If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did. — Richard Benjamin

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality? — Remy De Gourmont

There is a close connection between art and religion in the sense that both are concerned about questions of meaning - if not about the meaning of existence generally, then certainly about the meaning of one's individual life and how a person relates to his or her total community/environment. — Freeman Patterson

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image. — Terence McKenna

What a tangle love is. — Alyson Noel

the trees began to form — Jan Karon

Just as I was about to close my eyes I saw a faint line connecting the shadows, like string you take into a forest so you don't lose your way. Everything in the room was joined by one line; the frame to the curtain, the coil to the crack, the belt to the shoe. I closed my eyes and in the vision behind the skin of my lids I saw the line stretch way out to sea, like cobweb blown by the wind, further and further; it crossed the Pacific until the Pacific became the Indian and it found Robby in his ship. It touched his shoulder and moved across the sleeve of his shirt and up to his eyes and across the top of his head and then the line went to all the other men on the ship; then all the way back to me. Everyone was joined. — Sofie Laguna

Brave and generous friend, will you let me ask you one last question? I am very ignorant, and it troubles me - just a little. — Charles Dickens

We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. — George MacDonald

Listen carefully, because I don't repeat myself - and if I do, I get testy. — Laura Schlessinger