H.W. Charles Quotes

I'm still going to Disney World.

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

My writing is a lens into the possibilities of the American experience.

I found my way to make my peace with the recent past by turning it into WORD.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

To be a great man and a saint to oneself, that's the only important thing.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

And over your unconsecrated head you'll hear the howling wolves lament their fate and yours the livelong year.

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech; Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.

A Dandy does nothing.

Because it is the Midwest, no one really glitters because no one has to, it's more of a dull shine, like frequently used silverware.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book Award] are always subjective.

A growing number of Muslims in America, more than 40 percent are African-American

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.