I am obsessed with quotes - quotes from books, from songs, from movies, from interviews - it doesn't matter. I just love bite sized tastes of other people's world views, wit, and wisdom. Here are few that I have been mulling over for the past few months. Happy reading!
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E.L. Doctorow
The time to make up your mind about people, is never.
Philip Barry
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.
Carol Shields
There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
Raymond Chandler
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
Hunter S. Thompson
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Maxim Gorky
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick Hornby
3 comments:
These are great! I love the advice to read to page fifty without pause. I've set aside so many books because I don't invest the effort to get far enough into the plot to be engulfed or committed. I'll have to try this with my next read!
love these. especially the ones on insincerity and happiness. thanks for sharing!
I love that if I just was given this list of quotes without knowing they were from you...I could have perfectly drawn them back to you. Love love love. Thanks for sharing sister friend.
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