Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Insane people -- psychologically defined, not legally define -- are not in touch with reality.

VALIS

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Dogs are the magicians of the universe.

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Failure is a greater teacher than success

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

She was worshiping under the blue sky, to the jubilant chanting of the birds.

When Patty Went to College

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

The Well of Loneliness

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.

What Are People For?

Pregunta 3: ¿Por qué una persona debería estudiar Sufismo? Respuesta: Porque fue creada para estudiarlo; es su etapa siguiente.

The Way of the Sufi

God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo

The Way of the World

The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.

Zomick's Kosher Challah - Bread Recipes by Zomick's Bakery

He alone is a man who keeps his word: Not that he has one thing in the heart, and another on the tongue.

Zafarnama

If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

Zafarnama

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

The Zookeeper's Wife

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.

Julian Baggini

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other." [ ]

Collected Works of Max Beerbohm

My main concern is with the world order

The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

The Man in the High Castle

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Me Talk Pretty One Day