Unsmoothed Quotes & Sayings

Books have sexes; or to be more precise, books have genders. They do in my head, anyway. Or at least, the ones that I write do. And these are genders that have something, but not everything, to do with the gender of the main character of the story. — Neil Gaiman

You are your best thing — Toni Morrison

Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way. — Georg Brandes

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image. — Barnett Newman

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness. — Dorothy Rowe

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Here I stand. But no longer. Taking the small box, he put the Edfrank jewellery piece away in his coat pocket. — Philip K. Dick