Pertukaran Oksigen Quotes & Sayings

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. — Oscar Wilde

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. — Cat Stevens

To imitate nature involves the verb to do. To copy is merely to reflect something already there, inertly: Shakespeare's mirror is all that is needed for it. But by imitation we enlarge nature itself, we become nature or we discover in ourselves nature's active part. — William Carlos Williams

John McPhee's 1989 book The Control of Nature, for — Douglas Brinkley

Los Angeles is a large city-like area surrounding the Beverly Hills Hotel. — Fran Lebowitz

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc. — Gabrielle Zevin

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. — George Saunders

There is a kind of coldness that allows interrogators to put cloth over the mouths of men and pour water into their lungs, and lets them believe this is not torture. What you do to your heart. You stand apart from yourself, as if your souls could be a migrant beast too, standing some way away from the horror, and looking fixedly at the sky. — Helen Macdonald

If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it. — Jack Canfield

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us. — Naveen Andrews

... but he realized he would never reconcile himself to life as something other than a prelude. What's life's meaning then? What is it? What does make the world go round, not letting hope die? What do people dream about, watching the endless flow of years? They dream. A dream, that's it. We live for our only dream, which can lead us, hand in hand, through our life; for the dream we reconcile ourselves to any frustrations and we shall struggle for releasing its silky wings from the net of reality. (The right to a mistake.) — Lara Biyuts