Quotes - Catarina Gomes (Porto, Portugal) Showing 1-30 of 211

#1

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: f-scott-fitzgerald

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#2

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
― William Faulkner

tags: drinking, war

214 likes

#3

“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#4

“I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.”
― Cormac McCarthy

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#5

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: truths

396 likes

#6

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71567 likes

#7

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

tags: reading

1395 likes

#8

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: friendship

1151 likes

#9

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: cost, life, price, time, value

885 likes

#10

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

tags: self-determination, soul

1726 likes

#11

“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

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#12

“You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have”
― Jose Saramago, All the Names

189 likes

#13

“Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. ”
― Marcel Proust

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#14

“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

193 likes

#15

“The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.”
― Marcel Proust

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#16

“Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. ”
― Marcel Proust

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#17

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

69529 likes

#18

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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#19

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: spirituality

3585 likes

#20

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2160 likes

#21

“Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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#22

“No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.”
― Knut Hamsun

tags: excess, rebellion, youth

16 likes

#23

“The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.”
― Knut Hamson

23 likes

#24

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

1478 likes

#25

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

1122 likes

#26

“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
― William Faulkner

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#27

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

tags: writing

496 likes

#28

“Um homem pode andar por cá uma vida toda e nunca se achar, se nasceu perdido. E tanto lhe fará morrer, chegada a hora.”
― José Saramago, Levantado del suelo

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#29

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

4713 likes

#30

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

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