Tsunesaburo Sharpening Quotes & Sayings

Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath. — Terry Eagleton

It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual. — C.S. Lewis

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. — Iris Chang

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham) — Sura Hart

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin. — John Hendy

In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth ... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature — Sylvia Brownrigg

It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum.
2666, Bolano — Roberto Bolano

Life is a sacred experiment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem ... must be you ... — John Geddes

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal. — Terry Tempest Williams

A will finds a way. — Orison Swett Marden

I think there's a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There's something transcendent about it. It's sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate. — Maynard James Keenan

I see great things in baseball. — Walt Whitman

Or is that the nature of lust? It's like an urge that disregards all the stuff that your brain knows you actually think.
I wonder if guys feel like this all the time. Or maybe if everyone feels like this all the time - everyone besides me - and that's why people act like such half-wits. — E. Lockhart