Portus Calle Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated. — John D'Agata

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice. — Claudia Schiffer

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. — Andrew Cuomo

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out. — Marilynne Robinson

You have to deal with who you are and you have to figure out how to live with it. — Tahereh Mafi

One time I was standing on a corner in Chicago & a man stopped his car & asked for directions to a place I knew & I said that's too easy, ask me something harder & he yelled & said he wasn't playing games kid & then he drove off & I think about him sometimes & wonder if he ever got there. — Brian Andreas

It's quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is it the writer, who crafted it? The characters, who carry the plot forward? Or you, the reader, who breathes life into them? Or perhaps none of the three can exist without the other. Perhaps without this magical combination, a story would be nothing more than words on a page. — Jodi Picoult

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. — Robert A. Heinlein

These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw

Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin. — Catherynne M Valente

I live in my suffering and that makes me happy.
Anything that keeps me from living in my suffering is unbearable to me. — Roland Barthes

When you love yourself, when you appreciate yourself, and are able to make peace with yourself, then because you are the same energy as the universe, it responds. It loves you in return, appreciates you in return, and makes its peace with you in return. — Stephen Richards

We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people. — Siri Hustvedt

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew. — Rudyard Kipling