Words are harsh mistresses, to be sure. Like petulant divas, they want only those parts that play to their talents and mask their blemishes, and only when complete companies of players who love their parts are assembled will they sing in harmony. I am your director for this stage production and will employ my best wiles to create a performance both truthful, and beautiful. I know that words are tricksters who show one face to you and another to me, so I am never certain you’ll hear in your head what I hear in my head. Since I deliver even this little truth with words, I acknowledge the irony. Dennis Vickers
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Henry Ward Beecher
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
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Anonymous
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....
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Alexander Trocchi
Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon.
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Joseph Bruchac
A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.
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Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Dennis Vickers
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage where the play is performed.
Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is — you deal with it.
Words are harsh mistresses, to be sure. Like petulant divas, they want only those parts that play to their talents and mask their blemishes, and only when complete companies of players who love their parts are assembled will they sing in harmony. I am your...
Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.
