Vittles Vault Quotes & Sayings

Here's the conundrum: We want to tell our stories! But if condensation is the language of wishes - especially the most verboten and destructive ones - the more you spell the story out, the less aesthetically charged it becomes. The question is whether untransformed experience can ever be aesthetically powerful, or whether it's simply interesting. Literary language is one solution, with its habits of duality - metaphor, irony - and other techniques for saying opposing things at once. For haunting the reader with ghosts of buried meanings.
Your story may be interesting, but what if, paradoxically, it's what you can't say that makes it lasting? — Laura Kipnis

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have struggled to be taken seriously as a female athlete. I have struggled to find my worth outside of winning. I have struggled to accept parts of myself. Now I'm recognizing the beauty in those parts as well as beauty in the times when things didn't go my way. — Lynsey Dyer

THE DEMOLITION OF A TEMPLE IS POSSIBLE AT ANY TIME, as it cannot walk away from its place. — Aurangzeb

Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault

Life is a transition. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No truly conscious human being sabotages himself - it's impossible, because it's contrary to Nature. — Guy Finley