John Quotes
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the signs of our ideas only and not for things themselves.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win hold or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
Journalism allows it's readers to witness history. Fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language trying to get human feelings right.
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.
Of course, ” the cabbie said, “you don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.
...all these epic battles and monsters lately - but love is a tiny world and I prefer a more personal style...
... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood...
...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more concrete ...
Let go into His arms untill you find yourself obsessed with things devine
Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.
The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.
Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)
we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.
I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.
There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.
My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner
