“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907. http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/publications/siycfall_05.pdf http://www.twainquotes.com/Bradley/bradley.html See also other photographs of Mark Twain by A. F. Bradley taken in March 1907 in New York on Mark Twain Project Online. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”
~Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre (1950) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.”
~Mark Twain
A portrait of the American writer Mark Twain taken by A. F. Bradley in New York, 1907. See also other photographs of Mark Twain by A. F. Bradley taken in March 1907 in New York on Mark Twain Project Online. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
Aldous Huxley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
~Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (Photo credit: Wikipedia. Photo by “Hajor”, from Meet-the-author Q&A session; Bookworks bookstore, Albuquerque, NM, USA; July 2004.)
“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.”
~William Inge
English: Portrait of William Inge. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
~Hermann Hesse
Hermann Hesse. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
~William Least Heat Moon
Author William Least Heat-Moon speaking in the Microsoft Auditorium of the Central Library, Seattle, Washington, 10 November 2008 (Photo credit: Joe Mabel, via Wikipedia)
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But even so, wise dogs don’t bark.
Only mongrels make it hard
For the milkman to come up the yard.
~Christopher Morley, Dogs Don’t Bark at the Milkman
American journalist & writer Christopher Morley with American publisher & writer Mitchell Kennerley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Never mistake motion for action.”
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
