Courtnay Stout-Brown > Courtnay's Quotes

“It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.”
― Henry Rollins

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez