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Thing Quotes (page 543)

The whole set of stylizations that are known as "camp" (a word that I was hearing then for the first time) was, in 1926, self-explanatory. Women moved and gesticulated in this way. Homosexuals wished for obvious reasons to copy them. The strange thing about "camp" is that it has been fossilized. The mannerisms have never changed. If I were now to see a woman sitting with her knees clamped together, one hand on her hip and the other lightly touching her back hair, I should think, "Either she... Quentin Crisp
T. S. Eliot quote: "Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. T. S. Eliot
Anne Rice quote: "I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening..."
I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song. Anne Rice
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "The things you own end up owning you."
The things you own end up owning you. Chuck Palahniuk
As soon as we take the enfleshment of God, the incarnation which, for Christians, is represented by the person of Jesus Christ, then we start taking things seriously. Mother Teresa
If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty...the only thing we know definitely worksis giving women control over their own reproduction Christopher Hitchens
Haruki Murakami quote: "My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me..."
My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me Haruki Murakami
The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist... Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time." (Fire From Heaven, Page 161) Mary Renault
The higher that the monkey can climb, the more he shows his tail. Call no man happy till he dies, there's no milk at the bottom of the pail. God builds a church and the devil builds a chapel, like the thistles that are growing 'round the trunk of a tree. All the good in the world you could put inside a thimble, and still have room for you and me. If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man. You can drive out nature with a pitchfork, but it always coming... Tom Waits
God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created. C. S. Lewis
J. K. Rowling quote: "There are much more terrible things than physical injury."
There are much more terrible things than physical injury. J. K. Rowling
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden
C. S. Lewis quote: "If things are real, they're there all the time."
If things are real, they're there all the time. C. S. Lewis
Haruki Murakami quote: "If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the..."
If writers only wrote about things everybody knew, what the hell would be the point of writing? Haruki Murakami
Listen--God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very... Haruki Murakami

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