Odoremasu Quotes & Sayings

I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed. — Richard Llewellyn

It took strength and courage to know when you were at the outside of what you could handle. — Laura Kaye

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. — William Shakespeare

Gertrude Stein maintained that one wrote for oneself and for strangers, a superb recognition that I would extend into a parallel apothegm: one reads for oneself and for strangers. The Western Canon does not exist in order to augment preexisting societal elites. It is there to be read by you and by strangers, so that you and those you will never meet can encounter authentic aesthetic power and the authority of what Baudelaire (and Erich Auerbach after him) called "aesthetic dignity." One of the ineluctable stigmata of the canonical is aesthetic dignity, which is not to be hired. — Harold Bloom

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions. — Tertullian

What is rain? It is thousands of drop-friends coming from the sky! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet. — Nanao Sakaki