Spraggettonchess Quotes & Sayings

The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense. — Sam Shepard

Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes. — Douglas Coupland

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could. — Gertrude Ederle

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal. — Saddam Hussein

I just feel like when you fall in love you can't help who you fall in love with. You love who you love; it just is what it is. — Laurel Holloman

I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves. — Colum McCann

Being human, we are constantly broken apart by experience. To reconcile our humanness means we are ever learning how to accept our suffering and to restore our Wholeness. — Mark Nepo

I'm going to make more money than I need in any outcome. — Stewart Butterfield

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally. — Dasha Zhukova

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles. — Walter Lippmann