Philia List Quotes & Sayings

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. — Katherine Mansfield

It was generally agreed that a coffin-size studio on Avenue D was preferable to living in one of the boroughs. Moving from one Brooklyn or Staten Island neighborhood to another was fine, but unless you had children to think about, even the homeless saw it as a step down to leave Manhattan. Customers quitting the island for Astoria or Cobble Hill would claim to welcome the change of pace, saying it would be nice to finally have a garden or live a little closer to the airport. They'd put a good face one it, but one could always detect an underlying sense of defeat. The apartments might be bigger and cheaper in other places, but one could never count on their old circle of friend making the long trip to attend a birthday party. Even Washington Heights was considered a stretch. People referred to it as Upstate New York, though it was right there in Manhattan. — David Sedaris

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all
for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes. — Mason Cooley

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible ... — William Gaddis

Idea the situation was so bad until I asked each committee member to present a status report at our meeting this morning. — Rachel Renee Russell

Maybe God left it up to people to develop the ability to bring back Christ into their lives. Maybe God wanted us to invent our own savior when we were ready. When we need it most. Denny says maybe it's up to us to create our own messiah. To save ourselves. — Chuck Palahniuk

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies. — Trieste Kelly Dunn

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something. — Elayne Boosler

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock

I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors. — Steven Yeun