Refashioning Thrift Quotes & Sayings

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement. — Walter Schloss

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself — Dalai Lama

I studied Comparative Literature at Cornell. Structuralism was real big then. The idea of reading and writing as being this language game. There's a lot of appeal to that. It's nice to think of it as this playful kind of thing. But I think that another way to look at it is "Look, I just want to be sincere. I want to write something and make you feel something and maybe you will go out and do something." And it seems that the world is in such bad shape now that we don't have time to do nothing but language games. That's how it seems to me. — William T. Vollmann

She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear. — Katie Roiphe

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are. — Vladimir Voinovich

Ollie I would never leave you, she whispered, and she knew she was telling the truth.
-Schuyler — Melissa De La Cruz

I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed ... — Frederic Bastiat