Ordeals Lobotomy Quotes & Sayings

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy. — Anne Stevenson

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood. — Anais Nin

The Heart of Christmas is you. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring. — Emma Donoghue

In the summer of 1705, an unusually extravagant rumor horrified the citizenry. The Tsar, it was said, had forbidden Russian men to marry for seven years so that Russian women might be married to foreigners being imported by the shipload. To preserve their young women, Astrachaners arranged a mass marriage before the foreigners could arrive, and on a single day, July 30, 1705, a hundred women were married. — Robert K. Massie

[The entire text of Infinite Jest.] — David Foster Wallace

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture. — Lin Yutang

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all. — Josiah Royce

Ever heard someone tell you that hard physical labor can be soothing? Can take your mind off your problems? Can leave you feeling better? I'd heard that. In my opinion, hard physical labor gives you blisters, and the only real distraction I got was trying to remember the spells I'd once known for curing them. He was much better than me, by the way; turns out there is even skill involved in digging holes. Who knew? — Steven Brust