Melaina Tryon Quotes & Sayings

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary salience of the subjects he 'took on,' and stayed with, and never abandoned. As a consequence, we commonly use the term 'Orwellian' in one of two ways. To describe a state of affairs as 'Orwellian' is to imply crushing tyranny and fear and conformism. To describe a piece of writing as 'Orwellian' is to recognize that human resistance to these terrors is unquenchable. Not bad for one short lifetime. — Christopher Hitchens

Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen. — Rumi

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

this art wasn't exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor friends to visit, nor any interest in reading books, he usually spent his nights at home, in his rented room, likewise writing. — Anonymous

If you feel like eating, eat. Let your body tell you what it wants. — Joan Benoit