Pain demands to be felt

When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life.That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin.And this was her penance.Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

Melina Marchetta

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows; Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower. Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn, She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

Robert Greene

This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,Was saved the Union of these States.

Walt Whitman, Memories of Presid

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

Kate DiCamillo

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Michel De Certeau

Without morals a Republic can not subsist any length of time; they therfore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free goverments.

Charles Carroll, letter to James

I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.

Andy Milonakis

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

George Orwell

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.

Rebecca Lobo

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Mark Twain