Willingly Quotes (page 646)

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• art
• look
• desperate

The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do. J. P. Donleavy

• thinking
• giving
• love

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. William S. Burroughs

• pain
• learning
• training

The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain. Kurt Vonnegut

• thinking
• manly
• wills

Think not, because no man sees. Such things will remain unseen Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• feeling
• walking
• men

Roscoe and his friends are studying the heat of the fire and the level of oil in the pot with the attitude men take on occasions like this, feeling the weight of their supervisory powers. Sugar smiles. A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't, this world would end at once. Barbara Kingsolver

• home
• struggle
• song

Then I start to struggle. With a feeble song. Which will overcome me. Many miles from home Leonard Cohen

• boys
• been
• ours

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived? Margaret Mitchell

• writing
• fun
• die

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes. Edward Abbey

• die
• manly
• old

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said. Ernest Hemingway

• happy
• change
• expectation

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. Bette Davis

• real
• empty
• hard

Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our... Arthur Schopenhauer

• teacher
• little
• she

I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her left hand every time she wrote with it. Nowadays, if a teacher did that, she'd probably be arrested for child abuse. The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually be like handwriting: there's no right or wrong way to do it. We're all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he's right or left handed. After... Jodi Picoult

• love
• children
• magic

But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. Barbara Kingsolver

• life
• fighting
• fights

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know Theodore Roosevelt

• feeling
• crazy
• words

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. A. Whitney Brown