Pignatare Quotes & Sayings

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. — James Dickey

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right. — Heinrich Heine

Since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world. — Jean Amery

I'm not forgiveness and redemption. I'm violent retaliation and vengeance. — Amy A. Bartol

I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption? — Carlton Cuse

The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits. — Benjamin Tucker

Begin where you are. It would be unscientific to begin anywhere else. — Ernest Holmes

Loneliness Ends With Love — Al Lerner

Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men. — Herman Melville

I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. — Eleanor Catton

You can't kill anything that's always moving and changing — Ally Condie

As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic. — Francois Hollande