Stepinski Map Quotes & Sayings

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Begin and you're halfway there. — Alfred Armand Montapert

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts. — Philip K. Dick

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it. — Gertrude Stein

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. — L.P. Hartley

Paul had always wanted to be a prodigy. But what no one ever told him was that prodigies don't feel like prodigies; they feel old. They feel like has-beens just at the moment that they're said to be blossoming. — Graham Moore

Never overlook wallflower at dance; may be dandelion in grass. — Confucius