Shermann Palmer Quotes & Sayings

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that. — Ann Leckie

We do not realize the sound the world makes
unless, of course, it comes to a stop. Then, when it starts, it sounds like an orchestra. — Mitch Albom

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children. — Marguerite Yourcenar

And we do decide for ourselves when it will hurt. — Per Petterson

Civilization is paralysis. — Paul Gauguin

We can't take back who we've been in the past, Charlie. But we can control who we are in the present. — Colleen Hoover

Until you become yourself," Bloom avers, "what benefit can you be to others. — Harold Bloom

Alone, with tremendous empty longing and dread. The whole room for my thoughts. Nothing but myself and what I think, what I fear. Could think the most fanastic thoughts, could dance, grimace, curse, wail-nobody would ever know, nobody would ever hear. The thought of such absolute privacy is enough to drive me mad. It's like a clean birth. Everything cut away. Separate, naked, alone. Bliss and agony simultaneously. Time on your hands. Each second weighing on you like a mountain. You drown in it. Deserts, seas, lakes, oceans. Time beating away like a meat ax. Nothingness. The world. The me and the not-me. Oomaharumooma. Everything has to have a name. Everything has to be learned, tested, experencied. — Henry Miller

It is almost impossible to get anyone with a postmodern slant to say "I think" and stand by what follows, without making sure that the person listening understands, "Of course, there are other things to consider. — Gudjon Bergmann

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it. PLATO, GORGIAS — Julie Garwood

I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall. — Trey Anastasio

Aunt Polly is all stirred up over it. You see, she wants Uncle Tom to have what he wants, only she wants him to want what she wants him to want. See?" Mrs. Carew laughed suddenly. (22) — Eleanor H. Porter

This was crazy. He ate humans for breakfast. Not to
mention he was older than Father Time. So why was I
falling for him, falling for him when I couldn't help but
push everyone else away? It frightened me to feel this
way, yet I couldn't stop this and didn't want to. — Laura Thalassa