“I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 30 of 303
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.”
“Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.”
“For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.”
“I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.”
“Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”
“Mozart died too late rather than too soon.”
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
“I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?”
“I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason.”
“Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.”
“There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.”
“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.”
“I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.”
“If you disagree with them you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They won't pay attention to you while they still have a lot of ideas of their own crying for expression. So listen patiently and with an open mind.”
“Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
“Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?”
“I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.”
“I have no plans to write an autobiography, I will leave that to others. I'm sure they will turn me into a homosexual or a Nazi spy or something else.”