Mprtito Quotes & Sayings

Brother Frank By: Dave Grix — Dave Grix

There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people. — Augusto Roa Bastos

What is your name?"
"Again sir, that is no concern of yours."
"A mystery," he said. "I shall have to call you Clorinda."
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"Judith! What the devil? exclaimed Peregrine. "Has there been an accident?"
"Judith," repeated the gentleman of the curricle pensively. "I prefer Clorinda. — Georgette Heyer

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk. — Bruce Springsteen

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life. — May Sarton

He bowed in a courtly way as he replied: I am Dracula. and I bid you welcome, Mr Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest. — Bram Stoker

Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze. — William Carlos Williams

Greatness is not a dream but an achievement . — Osunsakin Adewale

Because a person's awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever. Order is dependent on the extremely personal values of what a person wants to live with. — Marie Kondo

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap. — Francesca Annis

Every word was once a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In place of negative falsification, we have nurtured, in the past thirty years, a new fetishization. Black female protagonists are now unerringly strong and soulful; they are sexually voracious and unafraid; they take the unreal forms of earth mothers, African queens, divas, spirits of history; they process grandly through novels thick with a breed of greeting-card lyricism. They have little of the complexity, the flaws and uncertainties, depth and beauty of Janie Crawford and the novel she springs from. — Zadie Smith

What is it to be God's elect ? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age. — Soren Kierkegaard

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like ... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up. — Eddie Vedder