Mongerers Quotes & Sayings

From a letter to Barrett H.Clark, 4 May 1918(LL,II,pp.204-5):
my attitude to subjects and expressions, the angles of vision, my methods of composition will, within limits, be always changing
not because I am unstable or unpricipled but because I am free. Or perhaps it may be more exact to say, because I am always trying for freedom
within my limits ... A work of art is seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character. — Joseph Conrad

What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul. — Eleesha

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself. — Colin Wilson

Everything about it and the fierce old coast around it, had the ring and taste and feel of utter rightness to me. Its peace and loneliness crept into my veins and ran there, its wildness called out to the deep buried wildness in my heart. — Anne Rivers Siddons

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'. — John Calvin

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men. — George Richards Minot

Did ghosts not require a salary? Was that it? Or was it literally impossible to fire anyone in Hogwarts even if they died?
Now it seemed that Professor Snape was going about being absolutely awful to everyone who wasn't a Slytherin and it hadn't even occurred to anyone to terminate his contract.
And the Headmaster had set fire to a chicken. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally. — Arsenio Hall

Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it's simply your attitude. — Michael Thomas Sunnarborg