Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength

George Orwell

I don't know if I have ever truly believed that everyone deserves love. But if I had to take it one moment further into those shadowed valleys of heartfull, I would admit that I do believe that love, deserves everyone.

Mikl Paul

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. Fix me a toddy, Lola, and we'll sit on the gallery of Tara and you play a tune and we'll watch evening fall and lightning bugs wink in the purple meadow.

Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

Rebecca West

Do you know a cure for me? Why yes, he said, I know a cure for everything. Salt water.Salt water? I asked him. Yes, he said, in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.

Isak Dinesen

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Elie Wiesel

I still believe in marriage.

Frank Bruno

Four men are missing R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

Francis Parkman

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Herbert Kaufman

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Abigail Van Buren