Solongov Quotes & Sayings

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art. — Ellen Kushner

The works of the great artists are silent books of eternal truths. — Stefan Zweig

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour. — Abdulrazak Gurnah

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period. — Eric Braeden

But not me, baby, I've got you to save me. — Tom Petty

And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose. — Jay Asher

When you look back at your own life, you see ... the sufferings you went through, each time you would have avoided it if you possibly could. And yet, when you look at the depth of your character now, isn't a part of that a product of those experiences? Weren't those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being? — Ram Dass

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow ... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. — John Quincy Adams

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will. — Lysander Spooner

Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in. — Stephen Collins