Quotes - Joseph Raffetto (noovella) (Santa Barbara, CA) Showing 1-11 of 11

#1

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist.”
― George Orwell, George Orwell Diaries

tags: diaries, george-orwell

23 likes

#2

“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

185 likes

#3

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

tags: writing

1363 likes

#4

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
― George Orwell

tags: politics-language

2170 likes

#5

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

11931 likes

#6

“Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.”
― Clive James

tags: democracy

17 likes

#7

“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
― Walker Percy, The Second Coming

tags: life

440 likes

#8

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

tags: love, unrequited-love

173 likes

#9

“It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears
is said to be seen in San Francisco.
It must be a delightful city and possess
all the attractions of the next world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: heaven, hiding, people, places, san-francisco, tales-of-the-city

117 likes

#10

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: acceptance, philosophy, tolerance, wisdom

21 likes

#11

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

tags: attitude, chances, doors, entrance, exit, opportunities, passage, transition

516 likes

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