"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny."

-- Guy Davenport

#Witty Quotes #Humorous Quotes #Reading Quotes

“Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”
“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.”

Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication”, p.49, Macmillan
“If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (1983). “Fact, Fiction, and Forecast”, p.31, Harvard University Press
“I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old.”
“So all things limp together for the only possible.”
“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.”
“The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.”

Source : "arbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 63, 1989.

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