Maycroft Community Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, Blister was thinking, the only person in the world she could really count on was herself, and that was not enough. — Susan Richards Shreve

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. — Anne Sexton

But I knew how the play would come out. This was like a dress rehearsal after the show has closed down. — Robert Penn Warren

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself. — Anne Rice

And sometimes if I want
To imagine I'm a lamb
(Or a whole flock
Spreading out all over the hillside
So I can be a lot of happy things at the same time),
It's only because I feel what I write at sunset,
Or when a cloud passes its hand over the light
And silence runs over the grass outside.
When I sit and write poems
Or, walking along the roads or pathways,
I write poems on the paper in my thoughts,
I feel a staff in my hand
And see my silhouette
On top of a knoll,
Looking after my flock and seeing my ideas,
Or looking after my ideas and seeing my flock,
With a silly smile like someone who doesn't understand what somebody's saying
But tries to pretend they do. — Alberto Caeiro

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living. — Manly Hall

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. James Morris — George F. Will

I can't believe there are so many people who aren't us. — Jimmy Fallon

For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realizes that it is God who does not care; and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other. — Lawrence Durrell