Ray Pezzi > Ray's Quotes

“I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.”
― Pam Houston, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids

“You struggle to live the best you can but soon the whole lot disappears. We get up in the morning, but that morning doesn't actually exist any more than the night before, which everyone's already forgotten. We're all walking on the edge of a precipice, I've known that for a long time. One step forward, one step in the void. Over and over again. Going where? No one knows. No one gives a damn.”
― Véronique Olmi

“The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four–the years turn dry as leaves.”
― James Salter, A Sport and a Pastime

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.”
― Sara Nelson, So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading

“The best way to get even is to forget.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires.”
― Tom Sweterlitsch, The Gone World

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

“Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.”
― Gore Vidal

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“We waste so much time on elaborations. What did that poet chap say - spending ou lives making more and more money because we're for ever discovering we need too much. It's quite true. New things are invented, so of course we think we need them.”
― Carol Carnac, Crossed Skis

“A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own the rain, or the trees, or the laws which pertain to them”
― Mary Oliver

“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”
― Carl Sandburg

“And that's us. No demagogues having to harangue the crowd, no self-interested cult leader talking everyone into servitude. Just a group acting together for everyone's best benefit. Even mine.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Clay

“In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.”
― C.J. Sansom, Dissolution

“Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.”
― C.J. Sansom, Revelation

“But then Vega snapped in a loud, clear voice, “My guess is they clicked ‘like’ because there’s no ‘I fucked her’ button.”
― Louisa Luna, Two Girls Down

“I think of people more kindly when I am away from them.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Laura had brought her sensitive conscience into the country with her, just as she had brought her umbrella, though so far she had not remembered to use either.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being helpful either…. It’s to escape all that – to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to you by others, charitable refuse of their thoughts, so many ounces of stale bread of life a day.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

“The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.”
― Peter Heller, Celine

“We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“They don't understand anything. They see their engineering is fifty years stale, and they see the drop in the birthrate, sure. Only we make certain they can't think about it very long. We stopped the statisticians' reports at an eighteen percent decline. As far as any humans know, that's bottom line, okay?”
― Patricia Anthony, Brother Termite

“We sainted St. Tammany (King Tamanend III) because he embodied moral perfection and every divine qualification that a deity could possess. I hold him in higher esteem than the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. He'll forever be the patron saint of America.”
― George Washington

“Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale

“Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading. If you add up how much you read in a year on the Internet—tweets, Facebook posts, lists—you’ve read the equivalent of a shit ton of books, but in fact you’ve read no books in a year.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood