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Douglas Adams quote: "Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you..."
Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it. Douglas Adams
I guess a bit part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. David Foster Wallace
Clifton Fadiman quote: "Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they..."
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew. Clifton Fadiman
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about. Kurt Vonnegut
You have perhaps heard some false reports. On the subject of God. He is not dead; and he is not a fable. He is not mocked nor forgotten--Successfully. God is a lion that comes in the night. God is a hawk gliding among the stars--If all the stars and the earth, and the living flesh of the night that flows in between them, and whatever is beyond them. Were that one bird. He has a bloody beak and harsh talons, he pounces and tears--And where is the German Reich? There also. Will be... Robinson Jeffers
Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. "Please," she said, "you're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd sooner be eaten by you than fed by anyone else. C. S. Lewis
Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? C. S. Lewis
E. E. Cummings quote: "something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts..."
something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace E. E. Cummings
Martin Amis quote: "You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like."
You couldn't catch a yawn from someone you didn't like. Martin Amis
Robert Bloch quote: "Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it,..."
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings. Robert Bloch
Robert Penn Warren quote: "And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace"
And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace Robert Penn Warren
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case.... Mary Oliver
GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a... Robert Frost
Mark Twain quote: "Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often..."
Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain
You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them. George Bernard Shaw

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