"The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed."

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Source : Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.56, Knopf

Franz Wright

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Grace Quotes

“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”
“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”

Source : Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
“Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.”
“I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.”
“What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and applies only to them; it is that which satisfies the rules of logic. But in education it is not that; it is one that can be understood by the pupils.”
“Natural science, does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”
“Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.”
“You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.”

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