An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
And oh I want so much to sing, I tell myself no. But it is so hard to keep from singing.
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.
I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.
We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U. S. A.
God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns in it, so that we may be compelled to mount and find our soul’s true home somewhere else, in a higher and nobler sphere than this poor world can give.
If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.