Scuole Americane Quotes & Sayings

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth! — Ursula K. Le Guin

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. — Samuel Butler

Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind. — William Faulkner

Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea. — Neal Stephenson

The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure. — Thomas Watson

There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents. — Laura Bush

Ask, and it shall be given you. — Origen