Quotes About Perspective

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life. Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

Inni nie prze?yli niczego podobnego, cho? wys?uchali tych samych opowie?ci

Der wahre Leser muss der erweiterte Autor sein.

Totul este bun, dar nu pretutindeni, dar nu oricând, dar nu pentru to?i.

One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and soul of the artist.

Ayn? masallar? dinlemelerine ra?men ötekiler hiç böyle bir ?ey ya?amad?lar.

Alles ist gut, nur nicht überall; nur nicht immer, nur nicht für alle.

i usedta live in the world then i moved to HARLEM & my universe is now six blocks

Maybe Jane was right. Maybe he was wrong to have filled her head with tales of Bessie Smith and Josephine Baker, let alone take her to see Jackie Wilson, Etta James, Tina Turner and the Ikettes. Maybe it wasn't right to wake up to Chico Hamilton, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, and Art Blakey in the morning. Watch the sunset with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Little Willie John. But Greer didn't know what else to offer that was beautiful and colored and alive, all at the same time.

Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.

It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot.

It's possible that some of us cannot help losing ourselves in the sorrows of other people's stories.

one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.

There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.

Yes, life is hard, but it's not a bad way to pass the time. When all is said and done, I recommend it.

You cannot enjoy my sweetness and refuse to enjoy my bitterness when arise.

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Yes, you learn your lessons as they come your way... And when you have learned them all they can stick red-hot pokers in your wife and babies and you will only laugh to see it. Because you will know by then that people don't matter a damn. Men are like corn growing. The sun burns them up and the rain washes them out and the winter freezes them, and the cavalry tramps them down, but somehow they keep growing. And none of it matters a damn so long as the whisky holds out.

If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are.

Nobody ever seems to remember life is a game we play

Gerçek ba?kalar?n?n bize uygulamaya çal??t??? tats?z bir ölçüdür. birimi insand?r.

Ne kadar ac?yorum kendime; bu yüzden ba?kalar?na ac?maya f?rsat bulam?yorum. Bütün ac?mam? kendime harcad?m.