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"Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory."
— James Joyce (The Dead)

11 people liked it

"Shut your eyes and see."
— James Joyce

18 people liked it

"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. "
— Rainer Maria Rilke

21 people liked it

"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. "
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: poetry
35 people liked it

"Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

34 people liked it

"They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins."
— Holly Black (Ironside)

11 people liked it

"I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Rainer Maria Rilke's Book of Hours: A Complete New Translation with Commentary)

26 people liked it

"Beauty is only the start of bearable terror."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: beauty, terror
3 people liked it

"But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

16 people liked it

"Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: rilke
41 people liked it

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
578 people liked it

"I have never heard a more eloquent silence."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

tags: silence
34 people liked it

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

99 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
431 people liked it

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
— George Carlin

tags: dance, dancing, music
995 people liked it

"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night."
— William Shakespeare

7 people liked it

"It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

39 people liked it

"This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

54 people liked it

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: laughter, truth
284 people liked it

"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
— Jane Austen (Emma)

99 people liked it

"She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be."
— E. Lockhart (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks)

tags: woman
26 people liked it

"But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things."
— Jack Kerouac

34 people liked it

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing
292 people liked it

"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: education
17 people liked it

"I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me."
— Erica Jong

16 people liked it

"There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: passion-for-books
24 people liked it

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas, How he got in my pajamas I'll never know."
— Groucho Marx

tags: humor
227 people liked it

"Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist"
— George Carlin

74 people liked it

"The earth laughs in flowers."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: flowers, laughter
158 people liked it

"Nothing is more sacred than the integrity of your own mind."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

55 people liked it

"You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against. "
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

tags: defend
79 people liked it

"Principal Principal: Where's your late pass, mister?

Errant Student: I'm on my way to get one now.

PP: But you can't be in the hall without a pass.

ES: I know, I'm so upset. That's why I need to hurry, so I can get a pass.

Principal Principal pauses with a look on his face like Daffy Duck's when Bugs is pulling a fast one.

PP: Well, hurry up, then, and get that pass. "
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

tags: humor, school
23 people liked it

"I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or gears?"
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

36 people liked it

"My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her part to her ears and then neon orange to the frizzy ends. I can't decide if she had pissed off her hairdresser or is morphing into a monarch butterfly. I call her Hairwoman."
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

tags: school, teachers
11 people liked it

"Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!"
— Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak)

10 people liked it

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

tags: friendship
1,381 people liked it

"The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield. "
— Holly Black (Ironside)

16 people liked it

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow"
— Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: maria, rainer, rilke
5 people liked it

"Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money."
— George Carlin

tags: atheism, humor, life, religion
567 people liked it

"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning."
— James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)

tags: novel, politics
69 people liked it

"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."
— James Joyce

14 people liked it

"Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor."
— James Joyce

8 people liked it

"You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending."
— Julia Quinn

tags: romance, writing
56 people liked it

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
— Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
252 people liked it

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: democracy, freedom, government
154 people liked it

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, freedom, writersblock, writing
114 people liked it

"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be"
— James Baldwin

tags: freedom, liberty
29 people liked it

"I need this wild life, this freedom."
— Zane Grey

tags: freedom
25 people liked it

"We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN."
— B.W. Powe (Towards a Canada of Light)

tags: freedom, propaganda, reality, truth
23 people liked it

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
142 people liked it

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