Quotes About Struggle

The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues.

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

I am going where turtles win I am going where conmen puke and die Down the sad esplanades of the official world.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don't mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in heaven they don't sing all the time

They were unmasked now, I saw them all for what they were, little sons and daughters of the eternal poor, the Lumpenproletariat, made only for slavery, for continued slavery. They wanted 'liberty' for everyone, in the abstract, but they couldn't give full liberty to anyone to act on his own!

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

we are all inevitably someone's adversary.

El deseo es una acémila. Si la monta Dios, avanza y camina como Dios quiere; si la monta el diablo, avanza y camina como quiere el diablo. No puede elegir quién la monta (...) y los caballeros luchan por montarla. Lutero

Aquí, ya ves, hay que correr todo lo posible para quedarte en el mismo sitio. Si quieres ir a algún sitio, debes correr al menos dos veces más rápido. Lewis Carroll, Alicia a través del espejo (monólogo de la reina roja)

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

el arte de la dialéctica de dos voluntades opuestas que utilizan la fuerza para resolver su disputa».[1]

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

futilidad que las animaban.

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

Excessive freedom is no less a flight from difficulty than is an overarching order.

Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.