"Donâ€™t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isnâ€™t the mirror hostile enough?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.”
“Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.”
“Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'”
“Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.”
“In a way, literature is true than life,' he said to himself. 'On paper, you say exactly and completely what you feel. How easy it is to break things off on paper! You hate, you shout, you kill, you commit suicide; you carry things to the very end. And that's why it's false. But it's damned satisfying. In life, you're constantly denying yourself, and others are always contradicting you. On paper, I make time stand still and I impose my convictions on the whole world; they become the only reality.”
“If you put a ten dollar bill under the rug instead of spending it, that is capital formation. It represents ten dollars' worth of something that might have been immediately consumed, but wasn't.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers
“Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan
“If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?”

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