Melanio Paredes Quotes & Sayings

Marriage: This terrible insoluble problem of civilisation, which created all the evil. This unnatural state of union in disunion which exacted impossibilities and forced together elements absolutely and inherently antagonistic to each other! — Rosa Campbell Praed

The Goddess of History looked down to earth. Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved. — Anthony Doerr

But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple. You've severed the connection between the apple and the tree: the organic connection. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple ... you've fallen off the tree. — D.H. Lawrence

I've tucked those negative thoughts in a drawer, and for the most part, though I know the drawer still exists, it never gets opened. — K. Martin Beckner

I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing. — David Foster Wallace

My grandparents are holocaust survivors so I was really aware at a young age how horrible human beings can be to one another. — Max Bemis

Alchemy is taking something ordinary and turning it into something extraordinary, sometimes in a way that cannot be explained. — Kenneth Coombs

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror. — Carl Von Clausewitz