"Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Talking Quotes #Water Quotes #House Quotes

“Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?”
“Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.”
“Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.”
“The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.”
“For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.”
“When people asked to buy my work I always said no. I'd had this rather rarefied idea that I didn't want money going through my head while I was making work. But after the car crash I realized that none of my work was owned by anyone. After that, I grew up a bit.”
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I'll have lost nothing-writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.”
“I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.”

Source : John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.27, Lulu.com

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