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  • #1
    Joseph Conrad
    “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
    Joseph Conrad, Chance

  • #2
    Marilyn Monroe
    “It's all make believe, isn't it?”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #3
    Marilyn Monroe
    “I restore myself when I'm alone.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #4
    Margaret Atwood
    “I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

  • #5
    Margaret Atwood
    “Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #6
    Margaret Atwood
    “If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
    Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

  • #7
    Margaret Atwood
    “I'd like another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #8
    Margaret Atwood
    “The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • #9
    Margaret Atwood
    “Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #10
    Jeanne d'Arc
    “I am not afraid... I was born to do this.”
    Joan of Arc

  • #11
    Diane Ackerman
    “It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
    Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

  • #12
    Diane Ackerman
    “We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
    watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
    and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
    I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
    And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
    you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.


    Diane Ackerman, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

  • #13
    Dante Alighieri
    “The path to paradise begins in hell.”
    Dante Alighieri

  • #14
    Dante Alighieri
    “In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
    Dante Alighieri, Inferno

  • #15
    Matthew Arnold
    “And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
    Matthew Arnold

  • #16
    Matthew Arnold
    “Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.”
    Matthew Arnold

  • #17
    W.H. Auden
    “You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
    Wystan Hugh Auden

  • #18
    Jane Austen
    “What are men to rocks and mountains?”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #19
    “Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
    Douglas McGrath

  • #20
    Jane Austen
    “Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
    Jane Austen

  • #21
    Francis Bacon
    “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #22
    Ambrose Bierce
    “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

  • #23
    Ambrose Bierce
    “HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are
    four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
    praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
    whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
    advantage of the lawyers.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #24
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
    Ambrose Bierce

  • #25
    Frank Stanford
    “-I have dreamed of escape, a forever

    -to burn your suicide notes she read in Braille

    -and the stars of dawn's trousseau”
    Frank Stanford

  • #26
    Lord Byron
    “Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
    Lord George Gordon Byron

  • #27
    Amy Irvine
    “My home is a red desert that trembles with spirits and bones.

    There are two reasons I came here: my father's death, and the lion man who prowled my dreams. Perhaps it was coincidence, but a man--half wild, ravenous beyond words--slid from the dream world into the mud of the waking one the same year my father left this world for another.

    Ghosts. Paw prints. I have tried to stay put.”
    Amy Irvine, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

  • #28
    Stephen R. Lawhead
    “Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land. Once I had stood at the prow of a Sea Wolf ship and sailed oceans unknown to seamen here. I had ridden horses through desert lands, and dined on exotic foods in Arab tents. I had roamed Constantinople’s fabled streets, and bowed before the Holy Roman Emperor’s throne. I had been a slave, a spy, a sailor. Advisor and confidant of lords, I had served Arabs, Byzantines, and barbarians. I had worn captive’s rags, and the silken robes of a Sarazen prince. Once I had held a jeweled knife and taken a life with my own hand. Yes, and once I had held a loving woman in my arms and kissed her warm and willing lips...Death would have been far, far better than the gnawing, aching emptiness that was now my life.”
    Stephen R. Lawhead, Byzantium

  • #29
    Eugène Ionesco
    “Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?

    ~Jack or The Submission”
    Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays

  • #30
    Eugène Ionesco
    “When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.”
    Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano and Other Plays



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