Shardaya Fuquay Quotes & Sayings

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow. — Flannery O'Connor

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments. — James Joyce

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind. — Catherynne M Valente

The Holy Apostle John the Theologian says that the commandments of God are not difficult, but easy (I John, 5:3). But they are only easy because of love, while they are all difficult if there is no love. — Silouan The Athonite

Most people are so afraid of dying they never live. — Steven Kotler

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious. — Neil Innes

We must ... forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection. — Debora Spar

So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city. — Michael Chertoff

You love her for a life time and still you are a stranger. — M.F. Moonzajer

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh

Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white. — John Mayer

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it. — Jonathan Swift