Slavenko Saletovic Quotes & Sayings

We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self. — Leslie Jamison

You're correct that I've never experienced poverty, but you've never experienced a man you've grown up with for 20 years, more brother than friend, try to assassinate you because another man wanted what was yours. You've never had your older sister gouge you in the leg with a throwing star and try to end your life. You've never had to live every day knowing the only thing between you and a body bag is a good bodyguard and the people who would kill you being too afraid of what you'd do if they failed. — Sam Mariano

An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. — Jules Verne

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen. — Jacquelyn Mitchard

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them. — David McCallum

Writing is really hard, and it's really a skill. — Caroline Leavitt

I'm not giving up. I'm just starting over. — Unknown

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but I doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is ot truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing ... — M. Scott Peck

Girls are very complicated creatures, they make you give up and then they say" I knew you would give up". — M.F. Moonzajer