Everybody finds themselves sometimes deficient in what they need, and put to inconvenience … the richest people may easily be without something they want, and that is practically to suffer poverty. Accept such occurrences cheerfully, rejoice in them, bear them willingly (Francis de Sales)
Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?””Only to be antisocial,” replied Cabal, making no move (Jonathan L. Howard, Johannes Cabal the Detective)
Poetry is a mug’s game. (T. S. Eliot)
Saints are slaves of good works.Sages are slaves of wisdom.Conquerors are slaves of victory (Matshona Dhliwayo)
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get (Warren Buffett)
He’s got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist (Jack Finney, Time and Again)
Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy (Hal Duncan, Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions)
Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves (Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago)
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you’re challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed. (Travis Bradberry)
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas (Kary Mullis)