The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
Eudora Welty
The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.
Eudora Welty
I imagined her stillness and set face belied inner fragility, as if beneath the crust lay a deep well of hurt. As I turned onto the highway, I saw her touch her shoulder, the place where Carnie had so often rested, his remembered weight now a phantom presence on her thinning bones.
from Megan Mayhew Bergman’s “Housewifely Arts”
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
I am not sure you should have done that.
Judy in Only Angels Have Wings (played by Rita Hayworth)
In delay there lies no plenty.
William Shakespeare
Clutter is a physical manifestation of fear that cripples our ability to grow.
H.G. Chissell
I’m quite vexed by this quote and I don’t like it one bit, but I am forcing myself to consider the inevitable truth(s) behind it.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne
I actually just found a bookmark with this quote on it while cleaning my room.
If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
The problem with life is it’s so daily.
Unknown (as far as I know)
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Blaise Pascal
‘Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea.’
from Haruki Murakami’s Sputnik Sweetheart
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.
Earl Wilson
A thing so complete has its own beauty.
from Sherwood Anderson’s “Death in the Woods”
Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
from Flannery O’Connor’s “Good Country People”
