- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37960/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37960/ <![CDATA[We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14978/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14978/ <![CDATA[The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37944/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37944/ <![CDATA[If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37953/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37953/ <![CDATA[No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37938/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/37938/ <![CDATA[To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12756/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12756/ <![CDATA[All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12758/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12758/ <![CDATA[All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15000/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15000/ <![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20556/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20556/ <![CDATA[The first requisite for immortality is death.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20571/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20571/ <![CDATA[A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41238/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41238/ <![CDATA[Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41255/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/41255/ <![CDATA[A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42576/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42576/ <![CDATA[A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42577/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42577/ <![CDATA[Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42570/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/42570/ <![CDATA[I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16495/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16495/ <![CDATA[Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16484/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16484/ <![CDATA[The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35090/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35090/ <![CDATA[In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12763/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12763/ <![CDATA[Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25097/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25097/ <![CDATA[The worst vessel a man can fill is his stomach]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47166/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/47166/ <![CDATA[My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21669/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21669/ <![CDATA[Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21654/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21654/ <![CDATA[Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14954/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14954/ <![CDATA[Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18708/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18708/ <![CDATA[To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18679/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18679/ <![CDATA[He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14706/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14706/ <![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39324/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/39324/ <![CDATA[One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10037/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10037/ <![CDATA[It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14694/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14694/ <![CDATA[Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17998/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/17998/ <![CDATA[Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18001/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18001/ <![CDATA[Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18006/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18006/ <![CDATA[Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18016/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18016/ <![CDATA[Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33765/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33765/ <![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33776/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33776/ <![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20047/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20047/ <![CDATA[It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20077/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20077/ <![CDATA[Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20095/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20095/ <![CDATA[Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8723/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8723/