Readers & Writers discussion

"Good fences make good neighbors" Robert Frost

"Fiction is only fiction because it is yet to be proven.”
― Robert M. Roberts

"If you don't have a sense of humor, then you have nothing at all.”
― Robert M. Roberts

" Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul." – Joyce Carol Oates

" Books may well be the only true magic." – Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

Love all of these

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." — Dalai Lama XIV

“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his prized rowboat. After several days on the river, he caught up and got the draw on them with his trusty Winchester, at which point they surrendered. Then Roosevelt set off in a borrowed wagon to haul the thieves cross-country to justice. They headed across the snow-covered wastes of the Badlands to the railhead at Dickinson, and Roosevelt walked the whole way, the entire 40 miles. It was an astonishing feat, what might be called a defining moment in Roosevelt’s eventful life. But what makes it especially memorable is that during that time, he managed to read all of Anna Karenina. I often think of that when I hear people say they haven’t time to read.”
― David McCullough

Jon wrote: "“Once upon a time in the dead of winter in the Dakota Territory, Theodore Roosevelt took off in a makeshift boat down the Little Missouri River in pursuit of a couple of thieves who had stolen his ..."

Oh I love this! And I am a big fan of David McCullough, Truman being my favorite perhaps.

"You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending." C.S. Lewis

Self-Pity" by D.H. Lawrence
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

“While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us”.
- J. R. Moehringer, The Tender Bar : A Memoir

This has been true in my life,
Elliot D

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." – Lao Tzu

"I don't care what my other personalities think about me.”
― Robert M. Roberts

"Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. ..."
- Robert Frost

"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final..."
- Rainer Maria Rilke from "Go to the Limits of Your Longing" in Das Stunden-Buch (The Book of Hours) (1899–1903).