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“You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.”
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“I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.”
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“Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.”
Source : Dashiell Hammett (1965). “The novels of Dashiell Hammett”
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“You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.”
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“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.”
Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”
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“True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse”
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“Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?”
Source : Tao Lin (2009). “Shoplifting from American Apparel”, Melville House Pub
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“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”
Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”
