Tatrai Mariko Quotes & Sayings

My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing. — Douglas Coupland

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for. — Robert Quillen

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself. — John Stuart Mill

Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity. — Marcus Sakey

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her. — A.S. Byatt