Mattice Lake Quotes & Sayings

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure. — Phyllis McGinley

Most men are essentially dead by thirty. — Romain Rolland

Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it. — Donald Driver

She speculates for the first time on what Melanie could have been, could have become, if she'd lived before the Breakdown. If she'd never been bitten and infected. Because this is a child here, whatever else she is, and she's never lost that sense of her own centre before except when she smelled blood and turned, briefly into an animal. And look at how pragmatically, how ruthlessly, she's coped with that. But Justineau only pursues this train of thought for a moment. When Melanie starts to speak, she commands their full attention. "I — M.R. Carey

In our everyday life we are usually trying to do something, trying to change something into something else, or trying to attain something. Just this trying is already in itself an expression of our true nature. The meaning lies in the effort itself. We should find out the meaning of our effort before we attain something. — Shunryu Suzuki

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured. — W. Somerset Maugham

Never put things off ... you will wake up and find them gone. — James Jones

I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic. — Kim Swift

Being alone feels more honest. — Kerry Cohen

I want to be the girl with the most cake. — Courtney Love

I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us — B.S. Johnson