Luard 2021 Quotes & Sayings

I start from experience and read ... always between polarities - loud and not-loud, young and old, spring and winter. If I can make black and white behave together instead of shooting at each other only, I feel proud. — Josef Albers

WOMEN sit, or move to and fro - some old, some young;
The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young. — Walt Whitman

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me. — Haruki Murakami

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can. — Arthur Koestler

Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth. — George Gordon Byron

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust ... We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. — Thurgood Marshall

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. — Aristotle.

He so must have male PMS. And it really does exist 'cause I glanced at an article about it online once. — Lindy Zart

Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all. — John Grogan

I'm scared, but I need to get out of this room. I need to find ways to distract the gnawing pain that feeds off of every surface of my body. — Sara Farizan

Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this. — Eric Mayes

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.' — Helen Vendler