Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
Musing takes place in a kind of meadowlands of the imagination, a part of the imagination that has not yet been plowed, developed, or put to any immediately practical use…time …
Quote for Today: Lin-Manuel Miranda
You have to bring all of yourself into a room, not just the parts that fit in. —Lin-Manuel Miranda, at the America Adelante Conference, Harvard, 2018 Photo by Jorge Saavedra on Unsplash
Quote for Today: Stephan McGlashan
Discipline and Rebellion are like night and day. One can’t exist without the other and in that there is equilibrium. Rebellion is natural and you will do it, to whatever …
Quote for Today: James Jones
There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning and repairing of the aftermath …
Quote for Today: Plato
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. — Plato, The Laws
Quote for Today: T. C. Boyle
I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: literature is only something you get at school as an assignment. …
Quote for Today: Jack Gilbert
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this …
Quote for Today: Shaun Tan
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake …
Quote for Today: Emil Dorian
Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain. ―Emil Dorian, Quality of Witness: A Romanian Diary, 1937-1944 Image: Sherpa on …
Quote for Today: Diane Setterfield
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grow pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. ―Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale …