Salvios Pizzeria Quotes & Sayings

Being blocked, being uncertain, sitting there not knowing, waiting, abiding with it: this is the work. If you don't have the tolerance for that you're in great trouble. If you want to call it a writer's block ... that doesn't seem a very useful name for that kind of abiding that I think is the essence of the work. — Jonathan Lethem

Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale about dragon daddies and false-hearted men, or mean mamas and friends who did them wrong. Each story has a monster in it who made them tough instead of brave, so they open their legs rather than their hearts where that folded child is tucked. — Toni Morrison

Ambition ... the original of vices;
Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. — George Orwell

History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth. — Tansy Rayner Roberts

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. — Rene Descartes

You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. — J. Paul Getty

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself. — Theodore Parker