Maturities Of Long Term Quotes & Sayings

In a man's attachment to life there is something stronger than all the ills in the world. — Albert Camus

The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms. — Stefan Emunds

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. — Steve Erickson

And two more tiresome examples of blameless lives lived well I have rarely had the misfortune to examine. — Andrea K. Host

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — George Bernard Shaw

So he-we, fiction writers-won't (can't) dare try to use serious art to advance idealogies. 31 (We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies-but this is very different.) The project would be like Menard's Quixote. People would either laugh or be embarrassed for us. Given this (and it is a given), who is to blame for the unseriousness of our serious fiction? The culture, the laughers? But they wouldn't (could not) laugh if a piece of morally passionate, passionately moral fiction was also ingenious and radiantly human fiction. But how to make it that? How-for a writer today, even a talented writer today-to get up the guts to event try? There are no formulas or guarantees. There are, however, models. Frank's books make one of them concrete and alive and terribly instructive. — David Foster Wallace

A flower blooming in the desert has greater strength than a tree flourishing in a rain forest. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts. — Francois Lelord

Just know, my darling girl, that if I could, I would call you every day of your life just to say "I love you" with nothing else attached to those words. No criticism. No advice. No requests. Just to say I love you. — Diane Chamberlain

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio