"I dissolved, so white, so unapproachable, amid my white flame, in the whiteness of moonlight"

-- Giannis Ritsos

#Flames Quotes #White Quotes #Moonlight Quotes

“A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced.”
“No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.”
“My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.”
“I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.”
“Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.”

Source : 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.
“Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.”
“Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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