Words & Letters“We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse
“Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce. Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own.” – Adam Grant
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
― Dave Grohl
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Our true nationality is mankind.” ― H.G. Wells
“Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”–Mitch Hedberg
“I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.” ― Tennessee Williams
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela Y. Davis
“When men oppress their fellow men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” – Frederick Douglass
“There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.” ― Jeff Buckley