Dima Lababidi > Dima's Quotes

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.”
― Angela Carter

“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”
― Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer

“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ”
― Janet Frame

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.”
― Jewel Kilcher, Chasing Down the Dawn

“Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.”
― Edna Ferber

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway