Pen Clubs Quotes & Sayings

It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing. The realm of imagination is a bridge between them, constantly refashioning one in terms of the other. Plato's philosopher-king knew this and so did the blind censor, so it was perhaps not surprising that the Islamic Republic's first task had been to blur the lines and boundaries between the personal and the political, thereby destroying both. — Azar Nafisi

Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. — Oscar Wilde

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past. — Paul McCartney

We didn't die,' she said.
Of course not. I'm too clever to die, and you're too pretty.'
I am pretty,' Valkryie said, managing a grin. — Derek Landy

Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems. — Brian Kernighan

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. — John Galsworthy

Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge," declared Mr Norrell primly. "Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines. — Susanna Clarke

No one else knows the whole story. I was there. I lived through it. — Christine Keeler

That's Kline," he said. "We know and love him. He's like a person to us. — Brian Evenson

An intelligent enemy always keeps in the background and remains hidden out of sight. — Arthur W. Pink

The force is strong with this one." Sloane laughed. "All right there, Yoda." "Please," Dex scoffed. "We both know I'd be Han. You can be Luke." "Okay, Han." "Ash would be Vader. Ew, Ash would be your dad. — Charlie Cochet

From the dear comes grief;
From the dear comes fear.
If you're freed from the dear
You'll have no grief, let alone fear. — Anonymous

Think globally, act locally. — Paul McCartney

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies. — Criss Jami