Unenunciated Quotes & Sayings

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

To the woman in the restaurant today, the doll in her arms was the real child who still lived in her memories. — Shogo Oketani

I read in desperate snatches in the interstices of the Quotidian, and dream of finding three uninterrupted quiet hours to think, moon, mentally maunder, and, above all, write. I am pursued by an anti-Muse; her name is Life. Her homely multisyllabic surname is often left unenunciated, but to certain initiates it may be whispered: Exigency. — Cynthia Ozick

It was beginning to dawn on her that she had traveled so long, so perfectly, that it was difficult to conceive of another kind of life. It was difficult to imagine stopping, but stopping as imminent. — Emily St. John Mandel

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason. — Thomas Merton

Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other. — Manuel Valls

America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of ... — Henry Rollins