Quotes About Perspective

poi, all'improvviso, la verità mi è saltata agli occhi, semplice come un bicchier d'acqua. La vita è quello che è, ed è tutto tranne che giusta.

In looking back on the novel, I can see a lot of things I would do differently now, but the truth of the matter is, rewriting old work does little more than dress it in new clothes, and sometimes you don't want that. You don't want to see some old guy out there in a speedo. Just doesn't look right. Also, something written with the energy of the moment and in its time makes it different than when you come back and coldly remodel it. It looses its original charm if it ever had any.

Daddy always said Grandpa was so tight that when he blinked the skin on his pecker rolled back.

Technically, I'm not stealing anything. Car or pussy. You don't own the car, and the pussy came with a nightcap." "Don't be vulgar.

What becomes of someone who thinks he has all the power... and what becomes of someone who believes he has none?

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness.

Most Americans believed that winning two European wars in a single generation was more than should be required of American troops,

Given what we know today about Stalin's crimes against his own people, it is hard to imagine that as late as 1947, most Americans saw "Uncle Joe's" USSR as an ally. Since Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941, the Soviet Union joined with the Allies and bore the brunt of the fighting.

The truth is more complicated than that,"she said, "not as neat.

It takes something special to realize that the preconceived choices and beliefs that you've always had aren't necessarily the best ones for you. It's not easy.

Sartre said "Hell is other people," while Streisand sang "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

I seduced my admissions officer.""Wonderful.""She seemed to think so.""She?"Gobi reached over and squeezed my thigh. "Does that excite you?""No.""You must learn to adapt, Perry. Improvise. Go with the flow.

We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant.

This is a head-warping, mind-opening, brain-cramping concept. To live it is to transform your life as never before.

You don't need to have anything else in order to be happy right now. You can choose to be happy.

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union's side, Lincoln's unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God's side.

Grief has a way of bringing out the sweetness in life.

Cine este bogat? - Cel care ?tie s? aprecieze ce are.

WHAT, THEN, OF the secret of happiness? I know stories that touch upon it and even one by that name. But for me, the secret of happiness sits atop a long list of life's secrets. Perhaps that's the secret—there is no secret of happiness. Yet, we keep searching, maybe because the simple act of looking for it makes us happy. As

Maybe he who dies with the most toys doesn't win, thought Bennett. Maybe he's just dead.

Or maybe he should always just expect the worst. Most often he would be right, and the few times he was not, at least he would be pleasantly surprised.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.