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Some Intelligent People Don't Have a Brain --Wisdom from Science of Identity Foundation
Sorry, but my karma ran over your dogma. --Unknown
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
--T.S. Eliot
The first three hours of night were almost spent
The time that every star shines down on us
When Love appeared to me so suddenly
That I still shudder at the memory.
Joyous Love seemed to me, the while he held
My heart within his hands, and in his arms
My lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil.
He woke her then and trembling and obedient
She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
Weeping I saw him then depart from me.
--Dante
Everything goes by the board: honour, pride, decency…to get the
book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not
hesitate; the ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ is worth any number of old
ladies.
--William Faulkner
Norman Mailer
On Humanity : "We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us. You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another."
On the Internet : "I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered."
On Novelists : "We're a special breed of human being. Somewhere between Psychologists, Historians, Detectives, students of style and manner - we have a capacity to do things that other people don't ... we develop over the years to try to see someone as whole."
On Violence : "Violence is the last frontier in literature."
On Writing : "Fiction can tell you certain things that nothing else can ... there's no one that we know inside out, there's always an area that we know, there's an area we know less well and there's a speculative area - the outside - that's part of the roundness of people we live with and when you do it ( ) in a book the person becomes more real."
"Writing is not competition to me. Writing is fun and I am simply a
storyteller. What I really enjoy about writing is the self-discipline that it
takes to do it. To me, it is a great challenge, like learning to celestial
navigate or becoming a seaplane pilot. Any man or woman bellied up to a bar
with a few shots of tequila swimming around in their bloodstream can tell a
story. The challenge is to wake up the next day and carve through the
minefield of the hangover and a million other excuses and be able to
cohesively get it on paper."
--Jimmy Buffett, Song Writer & Novelist.
"Better to write for yourself
and have no public, than to write for the
public and have no self."
--Cyril Connolly
"Life can't ever really defeat a writer
who is in love with writing,
for life itself is a writer's lover until death--
fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold,
treacherous, constant."
--Edna Ferber
Hemingway will write of his profession: "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -- Arabian Proverb
"At what point does real life stop and fiction begin?
There is no clear boundary.
Fiction writers are travelers.
They cross back and forth over the border,
collecting, selecting, arranging, and transforming."
Alyce Miller
Nothing is more rewarding than to watch someone who says it can't be done get interrupted by someone actually doing it. --Unattributed
A statistic: In North America there are: 7 major movie studios and more than 1,800 daily newspapers, 11,000 magazines, 11,000 radio stations, 2,000 TV stations, 2,500 book publishers. 23 corporations own and control over 50% of the business in each medium. In some cases they have a virtual monopoly. -- Noam Chomsky
Never underestimate the
Internet. Manipulate it. Respect it. But
don't try to dominate it.
-- Jerry Yang
"You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay
the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like
any other artist you must learn your craft -- then you can add all the genius
you like."
Phyllis A. Whitney
"The great gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites.
It gives you knowledge of the world and
experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination."
Elizabeth Hardwick
A woman is not property,
and husbands who think otherwise are
living in a dream world.
-- Robert
Heinlein
"All men need something to poetize and idealize
their life a little -- something which
they value for more than its use, and which
is a symbol of their emancipation from
the mere materialism and drudgery of daily
life."
--Theodore Parker
"Marriage is like a cage, one sees the birds outside
desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to
get out"
-- Michel de Montaigne
It takes 8 hours a day, every day, just like any other
job. You can’t become a doctor or a lawyer if you only work a few
hours a day. Writing is no different. Be sure you have 6 months
worth of money banked to support yourself so you can plunge right
in.
--Peggy Fielding
"Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing." Joyce Carol Oates
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected
much, and most of all yourself.
--A. Neilen
"I have been aided by some censorious but able reviewers who were willing to take pains in order to inflict them." Frank Moore Colby
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity,
and hardihood -- the virtues that made America.
--Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long
at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
--Helen Keller
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life
simply by altering his attitude of mind.
--William James
THERE IS ONLY ONE SUCCESS -- TO BE ABLE TO SPEND YOUR LIFE IN YOUR
OWN WAY -- Christopher Morley
WHAT THE WWW IS ABOUT"Most people live their lives, do their best, and maybe -- maybe -- get 15 minutes of fame. But they're still there, and in the long run they really matter.... It's the same on the internet. There is a silent majority of Web sites that don't cost much and don't make much money, or don't care about making money. They provide a great deal of what makes the Web what it is and what it will become. If the media....ignore that majority, they risk not understanding what's really going on." --Tim Haight
