Quotes
Authors
Abraham Coles
"Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine." --
Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”
Abraham Coles
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“The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.”
Source : William March, William T. Going, Richard Brough (2011). “99 Fables”, p.20, University of Alabama Press
“Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.”
“Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.”
“It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the asking and answering themselves, over and over again, and the end is engendered in the beginning.”
Source : Jacqueline Carey (2016). “Kushiel’s Legacy”, p.2289, Macmillan
“I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”
“I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.”
“You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!”
“I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority”
