Only Quotes (page 337)

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• light
• serious
• dead

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly. Madeleine L'Engle

• unhappy
• success
• true

I am simultaneously and contradictorily both happy and unhappy: 'to succeed' or 'to fail' have for me only ephemeral, contingent meanings (this does not stop my desires and sorrows from being violent ones); what impels me, secretly and obstinately, is not tactical: I accept and I affirm, irrespective of the true and the false, of success and failure; I am withdrawn from all finality, I live according to chance... Roland Barthes

• insanity
• love
• love her

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation. W. Somerset Maugham

• art
• painting
• consistency

Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible. Gustave Courbet

• crazy
• wonderful
• personal

The only way to make beauty ugly is to show it's crazy. Like twisting the top off a jar of something wonderful to eat, the moment he's hit by the terrible smell of it gone bad, even the hungriest person will drop the jar in the trash without a second thought. Jonathan Carroll

• best
• she
• feeling

She looked at me and the expression on her face was an expression of dislike, one I hadn't seen before but knew right away. Later I would see it turned toward other people. But the first time was looking at me and was because she believed she'd done all she could that was correct and the best thing, and it had only gotten her stuck with me. And I couldn't do anything that mattered. Though if I could I would've had my father be there, or Warren Miller, or somebody who had the right words that... Richard Ford

• love
• lovingly
• loves

The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest. Anais Nin

• drift
• adamant
• resolve

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. Winston Churchill

• wonder
• world
• wonderful

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• men
• greatness
• women

Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women? or by men? alone. They can only be surmounted by men and women side by side. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• pain
• ways
• painful

It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure Marquis de Sade

• dead
• believe
• hell

The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight. Terry Prachett

• saying
• song
• time

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song. George Harrison

• life
• work
• just

The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is no the day before another day. Jose Saramago

• motivational
• best
• motivation

We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld