Quotes About Adaptation

You have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

Some days are not new book days.

Beirut has survived for thousands and thousands of years by spreading her beautiful legs for every army within smelling distance.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.

for centuries new experiments have been made and adjustments carried out.

The dry river-bed finds no thanks for its past.

She made the best of what she could not change - which required her to make the worst of what she could not have.

when people freed themselves they usually forced change on everyone else. In fact, the first thing people sometimes did with their freedom was to find another version of the thing that had imprisoned them. Not changing, in other words, deprived them of what they'd gone to such trouble to attain (freedom).

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished, modernised, but essentially the same. A house in the landscape, both shelter and prison.

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home.

loss of control held new possibilities for me, as though it were itself a kind of freedom.

Change is also loss

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

La personalidad debía adaptarse a las nuevas circunstancias lingüísticas para crearse de nuevo

Change is also loss, and in that sense a parent can lose a child every day, until you realise that you'd better stop predicting what they're going to become and concentrate on what is right in front of you.

was a funny idea, writing in a language not your own. It almost makes you feel guilty, she said, the way people feel forced to use English, how much of themselves must get left behind in that transition, like people being told to leave their homes and take only a few essential items with them.

Sometimes, I said, the loss of transition became the gain of simplicity.

I was eager to find a new form that was less confrontational," says Cusk. "There's not that much difference for me as a writer. It's just adjusting the frame.

the way people feel forced to use English, how much of themselves must get left behind in that transition, like people being told to leave their homes and take only a few essential items with them.

Change is also loss, and in that sense a parent can lose a child every day, until you realise that you'd better stop predicting what they're going to become and concentrate on what is right in front of you.

He offered a stool next to his, but I went and sat in the old ladder-back chair beside the empty fire instead, a piece of furniture I have held on to throughout my adult life and that for reasons I have forgotten I had chosen to put there, in the second place. Perhaps it had reminded me too much of the life before Tony

Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in an animal's fur: the deeper they're buried the better.

It's funny how even when the sky falls around us, people still have to make pancakes