John Edward Handfoth > John's Quotes

“The days are stacked against what we think we are.”
― Jim Harrison, The Road Home

“Death steals everything except our stories.”
― Jim Harrison, In Search of Small Gods

“The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
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― Jim Harrison

“I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.”
― Jim Harrison

“Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery.”
― Jim Harrison, The River Swimmer: Novellas

“All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.”
― Jim Harrison, The Road Home

“When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought”
― Jim Harrison, The Road Home

“Humanity lives in its fiction.”
― Blaise Cendrars

“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.”
― Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations

“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military, or based on oil-is considered no more than legitimate vengeance. And there can be no doubt that the schism between these two worlds dates from the Crusades, deeply felt by the Arabs, even today, as an act of rape”
― Amin Maalouf, The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It could've been worse, sentiment that is always true and never comforting.”
― John Edward Handforth, A Halo of Vultures: Niles Dreamer Book 2

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”
― Idries Shah

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”
― Robert A. Monroe, Far Journeys