Writing is a solitary occupation.
BERNARD CORNWELLI speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world’s history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
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I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn’t just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.
WOLE SOYINKA -
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
BEATRIX POTTER -
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.
BILL AYERS -
My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my residence permit, refugee status, within four weeks of arrival. People treated me extremely well.
AYAAN HIRSI ALI -
A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLIN -
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor – the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
GRAHAM GREENE -
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
JULES VERNE -
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people’s morale.
BARBARA CASTLE, BARONESS CASTLE OF BLACKBURN -
In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.
WINONA RYDER -
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
MARQUIS DE SADE -
The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
ERIC HOFFER -
So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.
PATTI SMITH -
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
BASIL W. MATURIN -
If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you’re business is successful.
MAGIC JOHNSON