Vorstellen Quotes & Sayings

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him. — Mark Twain

Really to sin you have to be serious about it. — Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow. — Frank McCourt

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world? — Leland Ryken

When you read The Arabian Nights you accept Islam. You accept the fables woven by generations as if they were by one single author or, better still, as if they had no author. And in fact they have one and none. Something so worked on, so polished by generations is no longer associated with and individual. In Kafka's case, it's possible that his fables are now part of human memory. What happened to Quixote could happen to to them. Let's say that all the copies of Quixote, in Spanish and in translation, were lost. The figure of Don Quixote would remain in human memory. I think that the idea of a frightening trial that goes on forever, which is at the core of The Castle and The Trial (both books that Kafka, of course, never wanted to publish because he knew they were unfinished), is now grown infinite, is now part of human memory and can now be rewritten under different titles and feature different circumstances. Kafka's work now forms a part of human memory. — Jorge Luis Borges

At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history, — Christine Feehan

Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Is it not the disparity of wealth that consumes the willing soul. Rather, the golden keys of opportunity clamor softly with fraught anxiety of things which may never come. — Joel T. McGrath

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life. — Mark Haddon