The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively–intuitively–the camera can write poetry.
In terms of sex between same-sex partners, the objection that "the parts don't fit" doesn’t make sense on even the most logical level. If the parts didn't work together, frankly, people wouldn't be putting them together.
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Kathy Baldock
We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.
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Kathryn Stockett
He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.
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Dan Groat
I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.
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Elizabeth Gaskell
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.
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Peter Singer
More Quotes By Harry Callahan
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open,...
Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written- Books That If You Had More Than...
I was living and dying in all the fibers of what is chewed and digested and in all the fibers that absorb the sun, consuming and digesting. Under the thatched arbor of a restaurant on a river-bank, where Olivia had waited for me, our teeth...
What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
