Quotes - Larry Loftis (Orlando, FL) Showing 1-21 of 21

#1

“We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

tags: suffering

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#2

“This is how the whole of our life slips by. We seek repose by battling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome we find rest is unbearable because of the boredom it generates. ... We can't imaging a condition that is pleasant without fun and noise.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: obstacles

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#3

“Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: heart

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#4

“Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: literature

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#5

“[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: authors

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#6

“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: writing

413 likes

#7

“Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

285 likes

#8

“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

4203 likes

#9

“There is an innocence in the very word "afternoon." Morning is for trains and business and hangovers, night is for love and burglary. The afternoon is the halcyon, the calm between earnestness and drama.”
― Adam Hall

tags: afternoons

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#10

“[T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.”
― Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time vol. 2 The infernal grove

tags: secret-intelligence

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#11

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2359 likes

#12

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

2818 likes

#13

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: cannibalism, gourmand

324 likes

#14

“Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

278 likes

#15

“The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

127 likes

#16

“I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter”
― Thomas Harris

tags: horror, suspense, thriller

86 likes

#17

“But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#18

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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