The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
CESARE PAVESEGray hairs are death’s blossoms.
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I write because suicide is no longer an option.
NICOLE LYONS -
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.
ADRIENNE RICH -
Telling others how they can have eternal life is the greatest thing you can do for them.
RICK WARREN -
Poetry is just so emo.” he said. “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.
JOHN GREEN -
I will greet this day with love in my heart. For this is the greatest secret of success in all ventures. Muscles can split a shield and even destroy life itself but only the unseen power of love can open the hearts of man.
OG MANDINO -
Jon Stewart is a remarkable satirist and parodist in the vein of Mark Twain, because Jon Stewart understands what Mark Twain knew, which is that the truth goes down more easily in a democracy when it’s marinated in humor.
BILL MOYERS -
When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.
BELA LUGOSI -
He does not call those who are worthy, but those whom He wills.
THERESE OF LISIEUX -
There is also an age-old excuse: “The devil made me do it.” Not so! He can deceive you and mislead you, but he does not have the power to force you or anyone else to transgress or to keep you in transgression.
BOYD K. PACKER -
I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
AHMET ERTEGUN -
How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL -
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
BEAR GRYLLS -
If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline.
RAY DALIO -
Science is not metaphorical. Science is scientific.
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