Steve Shazer Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to deny him, but that's the terrible power of a diary: it not only calls forth the person you used to be but rubs your nose in him, reminding you that not all change is evolutionary. More often than not, you didn't learn from your mistakes. You didn't get wiser, but simply older, growing from the twenty-five-year-old who got stoned and accidentally peed on his friend Katherine's kitten to the thirty-five-year-old who got drunk and peed in the sandbox at his old elementary school. "The sandbox!" my sister Amy said at the time. "Don't you realize that children have to pee in there? — David Sedaris

It may be said of me by Harper & Brothers, that although I reject their proposals, I welcome their advances. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Truly evil persons do not recognize their own malevolence. They perceive themselves as generous, good-hearted, friendly sorts, who sometimes have to resort to unpleasant tactics for the general betterment of society. Even the historical monsters seem to have had no second thoughts about the damage they were causing. It was that way with Hitler and Oliver Moresby, just as it was with the Greer Avenue Strangler. — Jack McDevitt

We can now what better is without knowing what good is. — Steve De Shazer

She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter. — Joy Williams

Find out what works, and do more of that. — Steve De Shazer

This tug-of-war between wanting her, and just wanting her gone. — Amie Kaufman

Where you stand determines what you see and what you do not see; it determines also the angle you see it from; a change in where you stand changes everything. — Steve De Shazer

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter. — Libba Bray