Thing Quotes (page 562)

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• your life
• inspirational
• writing

a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life. Tobias Wolff

• feeling
• winter
• slabs

[A]lways get to the dialogue as soon as possible. I always feel the thing to go for is speed. Nothing puts the reader off more than a big slab of prose at the start."(Interview, The Paris Review, Issue 64, Winter 1975) P. G. Wodehouse

• dream
• work
• meanings

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work. Paulo Coelho

• hope
• learning
• may

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. Thomas Wolfe

• wife
• love wife
• latest

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• feeling
• sometimes
• wrongly

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. Alice Hoffman

• serious
• work
• reality

Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. Tom Robbins

• love
• end
• us

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. Louisa May Alcott

• love
• humanity
• sometimes

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. Albert Camus

• love
• physics
• love is

Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is. Richard P. Feynman

• you me
• past
• love

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last Bob Dylan

• best
• best love
• true

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. William Goldman

• mindfulness
• die
• walking

I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. Neil Gaiman

• heart
• evil
• night

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? H. Rider Haggard

• wall
• world
• never

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! Oscar Wilde