Famous quotes by Authors

"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout"

Alice Walker, Author

"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all"

Alice Walker, Author

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise"

Alice Walker, Author

"All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience"

Alice Walker, Author

"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart"

Alice Walker, Author

"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not, anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or, like a sealed letter, they could not plainly read"

Alice Walker, Author

"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears"

Alice Walker, Author

"It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are"

Alice Walker, Author

"Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful"

Alice Walker, Author

"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools"

Alice Walker, Author

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, if art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?"

Alice Walker, Author

"To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is, the more us she is, and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people"

Alice Walker, Author

"People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't"

Alice Walker, Author

"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home"

Alice Walker, Author

"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own"

Alice Walker, Author

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out"

Clive James, Author

"She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short"

Clive James, Author

"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world"

Clive James, Author

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire"

Clive James, Author

"I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"The secret of eternal youth is arrested development"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

"We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation"

Thomas Merton, Author

"We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves"

Thomas Merton, Author

"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness"

Thomas Merton, Author

"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell"

Thomas Merton, Author

"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me"

Thomas Merton, Author

"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it"

Thomas Merton, Author

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