Trouille En Quotes & Sayings

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words ... — David Foster Wallace

Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain De Botton

When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic. — Liezi

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within ... Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason. — Jostein Gaarder

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. — Maile Meloy

Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea anyone ever had, I'd give it to Darwin, ahead of even Newton or Einstein and everyone else. In a single stroke, the idea of evolution by natural selection unifies the realm of life, meaning and purpose with the realm of space and time, cause and effect, mechanism and physical law. It is not just a wonderful idea. It is a dangerous idea. — Daniel Dennett