Texte Quotes & Sayings

When you're writing a book that is going to be a narrative with characters and events, you're walking very close to fiction, since you're using some of the methods of fiction writing. You're lying, but some of the details may well come from your general recollection rather than from the particular scene. In the end it comes down to the readers. If they believe you, you're OK. A memoirist is really like any other con man; if he's convincing, he's home. If he isn't, it doesn't really matter whether it happened, he hasn't succeeded in making it feel convincing. — Samuel Hynes

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. — Robert Vaughn

Get yourself into something that you don't have passion for and feel like an idiot always. — Ameya Agrawal

There is nothing outside of the text.
[Fr., Il n'y a pas de hors-texte.] — Jacques Derrida

I Didn't Ask to Be a Senior Citizen (I Was Drafted) — Doug Jensen

The severity of the laws prevents their execution. — Charles De Montesquieu

When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison. — Martin Luther King Jr.