Cans Quotes (page 1117)

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• canned
• others
• written

It is written in my life-blood, such that it is, thick or thin; and I can no other. J. R. R. Tolkien

• pay
• canned
• dogma

You can't pay a landlord in dogma. Jodi Picoult

• selfish
• affection
• adult

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless. C. S. Lewis

• lies
• words
• thoughts

See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin."--Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch David Cronenberg

• shadow
• difficult
• him

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but thesimplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man ifhe is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow ofdoubt, what is laid before him. Leo Tolstoy

• ignorance
• hard
• much

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant. Henry James

• feeling
• feels
• somehow

and you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score. Jeffrey Eugenides

• people
• without
• permission

But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission. Herman Hesse

• love
• society
• discipline

Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive. Bertrand Russell

• thinking
• lost
• lost you

I lost you once, I think I can do it again. Nicholas Sparks

• god
• short
• vision

You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is... Annie Dillard

• fly
• end
• world

The sting of a fly, the Congolese say, can launch the end of the world. How simply things begin. Barbara Kingsolver

• sometimes
• hell
• away

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. Carrie Fisher

• book
• comforting
• consider

The disorder in Yashar's apartment was that comfortable littering and stacking that only another writer can recognize as order - the considered scatter of papers and books a writer builds around himself until it acquires the cozy solidity of a nest. Paul Theroux

• love
• search
• forever love

Americans . . . are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. Kurt Vonnegut