Quotable quotes

[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

“Truth is lived, not taught.” – Hermann Hesse

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.

Neil Gaiman, American Gods

 

[pornoboy]

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[opinterph]

“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[Alistair]

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

 

[Latimer]

From today's FT Weekend article about and interview with Vanessa Redgrave:

"...her daughter Natasha once said of her mother's behaviour: 'It never bothered her that she was never liked' because of the 'enormous freedom' that it allowed.

"Asked about her parents' 'unconventional' marriage and how her father's bisexuality might have affected it, she completely brushes me off. Michael Redgrave had male lovers throughout Redgrave's childhood, one of whom, Bob Mitchell, was known as a surrogate 'uncle' to the younger Redgrave clan. 'Well, it was perfectly normal!' she replies as though mystified by the question. Was it perfectly normal for her mother? She concedes: 'Well, obviously not!' "

 

[pornoboy]

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[Alistair]

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

Virginia Woolf

 

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[Alistair]

“I miss you more than I remember you.”

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

 

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[Alistair]

“A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

 

[Rand]

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[gsdx]

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out,
just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

-Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, A Life For A Life​