"A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world."

-- Arthur Golden

#Records Quotes #World Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.”
“Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.”
“To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
“I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.”
“The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops”
“Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.”
“The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.”
“One little ripple started today could create a typhoon fifteen years from now.”

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