67 Quotes About So-true

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible

We talk so much about leaving a better planet to our kids, that we forget to leave better kids to our planet.

Rupanya di malam hari, kesunyian membuat kita lebih peka. Tapi tak setiap orang, tidak juga aku, mampu menjadi penyair.

WE LEARN FROM OUR PAIN

I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world.

Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one's rest and plays hob with one's appetite.

It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it.

You would be surprised by what we are both capable of doing if we can justify it in our own minds.