Famous quotes by Authors

"I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois"

Susan Sontag, Author

"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses"

Susan Sontag, Author

"I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up"

Susan Sontag, Author

"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true"

John Steinbeck, Author

"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate"

John Steinbeck, Author

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"

John Steinbeck, Author

"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ"

John Steinbeck, Author

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world"

John Steinbeck, Author

"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"When our spelling is perfect, it's invisible. But when it's flawed, it prompts strong negative associations"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals"

Edward Abbey, Author

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders"

Edward Abbey, Author

"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing"

Edward Abbey, Author

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds"

Edward Abbey, Author

"You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light"

Edward Abbey, Author

"United we stand, divided we fall"

Aesop, Author

"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow"

Aesop, Author

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