Carmen Boullosa / Quotes

Carmen Boullosa

QUOTES

by Carmen Boullosa

Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings, but women are not allowed to enter the spaces of reason to the same extent, that is to say the space of ideas, political ideas. 

Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the stone human. 

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings. .

Some people die, others just run out of fuel. 

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

Mario Puzo / The Godfather / Quotes

The Godfather 

by Mario Puzo

BIOGRAPHY

Quotes

BOOK I

“Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of a family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn’t have to ask me for help.” – Don Vito Corleone

Flannery O’Connor / I write

Flannery O’Connor
I WRITE

Quotes

 

QUOTES

Smile

 

SMILE

Quotes by Margaret Atwood

 

Margaret Atwood

QUOTES
by Margaret Atwood

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.

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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

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“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”

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“A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.”

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“War is what happens when language fails.”

Bukowski / In the morning

Charles Bukowski 

IN THE MORNING

 

David Lynch

A life in quotes: David Lynch

The visionary film-maker and prolific artist, purveyor of the dark, mysterious, abstract and unspoken, died aged 78 visionary film-maker and prolific artist, purveyor of the dark, mysterious, abstract and unspoken, died aged 78

Adrian Horton

Friday 17 January 2025

avid Lynch, the enigmatic film-maker who revolutionized American cinema and television through his dark, surrealist vision, has died at the age of 78, less than a year after the lifelong smoker publicly revealed his struggles with emphysema.

 

 Photograph: Andrew Testa/Shutterstock

A life in quotes: Alice Munro

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Writer known as ‘Canadian Chekhov’ captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women

Adrian Horton

Tue 14 May 2024 19.16 BST

Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel laureate considered one of the greatest short story writers in the English language, has died at the age of 92 at her care home in Ontario, after suffering dementia for more than a decade. Born and raised in south-western Ontario, the “Canadian Chekhov” captured the desire and darkness of ordinary life in rural Canada, particularly for women – subjects long out of focus for the mainstream, finally achieving recognition later in life.

Stephen King / Lord of the flies

 

The book that made me want to be a writer 

Lord of the Flies: it was about kids, and I was a kid. The plot was simple and the descent into savagery was believable. I read it at the age of 12 – it was only later that I grasped the symbolism of the severed pig’s head and the sexual subtext. I felt that if I could do something like that, I’d be happy. And guess what? I was right.

Stephen King

The Guardian, 11  October 2024

Quotes / My Life

 

MY LIFE

“My life before was full of happiness. I would give anything — money, property, job — to have my family safe and alive. I lost my very dearest ones, and nothing can ever bring them back again.”
— Wael Ayesh, 50, who before the war ran a Gaza City beach cafe. His wife and three of his sons, aged 2 to 14, were killed in a bombing in January, after which, their bodies lay under rubble for 35 days

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Quotes / Lord Byron / Hatred

 

Lord Byron by George Henry Harlow

Lord Byron

«Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste, but they detest at leisure»

Quotes by Alain Delon

 

Alain Delon

QUOTES

by Alain Delon

• I like to be loved like I love myself.
• I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.

James Baldwin

James Baldwin Quotes

1. “Everybody’s journey is individual. If  you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”
2. “People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.”
3. “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
4. “The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, [yet] at the same time, he needs no one at all.”
5. “When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.”

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Zona Gale / Seven Quotes

SEVEN  QUOTES

by Zona Gale

“When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better.”

— Zona Gale

“The unexpressed is always of greater value than the expressed.”

— Zona Gale

“Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It’s curative. It is creative.”

— Zona Gale

“I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.”

— Zona Gale

“I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.”

— Zona Gale

“Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.”

— Zona Gale

“Moments of mystery are rare enough, in all conscience; and when they do arrive all the world misses them by trying to understand them. Which is manifestly ungrateful and stupid.”

— Zona Gale