Monday, July 8, 2013

QUOTES FOR THE SOLITARY LITERARY BARBARIAN

  
     "There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country."--Andre Maurois

  "Free at last! Free at last!  Oh, my God, I am free at last!"--Martin Luther King, Jr. 

     "Writing a story is one way of discovering sequence in experience. Connections slowly emerge. Like distant landmarks you are approaching, cause and effect begin to align themselves."--Eudora Welty 

     "We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy to befall us is to go unimagined." N. Scott Momaday  
     
       "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will."--George Bernard Show, Nobel Prize winning playwright

     "A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be the mercy of my emotions. I want to used them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."-- Oscar Wilde, author and poet

     " The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."--Schopenhauer

     "The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."--Pascal


    "Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself."-- Herman Hess

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