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Salman Rushdie quote: "The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are..."
The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame. Salman Rushdie
She married him two years ago for love, or so she thought, and he's a good enough man but a devotee of household silence. His idea of marriage is to spray WD-40 on anything that squeaks. ... The quiet only subsides when Harland sleeps and his tonsils make up for lost time. Barbara Kingsolver
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. Bertrand Russell
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us. Annie Dillard
As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this book, on the contrary, are not mine. They came freely to me, and I give them freely away. I have no "intellectual property," and I think that all claimants to such property are theives. Wendell Berry
If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too... J. D. Salinger
Jodi Picoult quote: "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same..."
I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move. Jodi Picoult
Anais Nin quote: "I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary..."
I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anais Nin
Madeleine L'Engle quote: "I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib..."
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything. Madeleine L'Engle
Louise Erdrich quote: "When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only..."
When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. Louise Erdrich
Adolf Hitler quote: "The only preventative measure one can take is to live..."
The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly. Adolf Hitler
The Silver Key: I. In the first daysof his bondagehe had turnedto the gentle churchlyfaith endeared to himby the naivetrust of his fathers, for thence stretchedmystic avenueswhich seemed to promiseescape from life. II. Only on closer viewdid he mark the starvedfancy and beauty, thestale and prosytriteness, and theowlish gravityand grotesqueclaims of solid truthwhich reigned bore somelyand overwhelminglyamong mostof its professors; or feelto the fullthe awkwardnesswith whichit sought to... H. P. Lovecraft
The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are fond of history! And so are Mr. Allen and my father; and I have two brothers who do not dislike it. So many instances within my small circle of friends is remarkable! At this rate, I shall not pity the writers of history any longer. If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck... Jane Austen
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. C. S. Lewis

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