Vostra Rose Quotes & Sayings

We celebrate the beauty and reason of the individual, and resist the coercion of the state and the tyranny of the majority. We laugh and cry about the bullshit 'liberal' and 'conservative' pigeonholes that people throw themselves into. They think we favor violence, but I've been taught how to fight, and you'll probably never find anyone less likely to harm a living creature. — Robert Peate

When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out - that's the real world, — Haruki Murakami

It's great to win a few prizes early on. It helps a writer to get noticed and to get some sales. It can also be a pain in the arse because it gets in the way of the quiet, contemplative time every writer needs, but which is particularly important when you are a new writer finding your own voice, and pursuing the things that interest you. — Jeanette Winterson

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. — Norman Tebbit

Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else. — Howard Jacobson

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon