Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Marcel Proust

It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.

Marcel Proust

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Marcel Proust

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Marcel Proust

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Marcel Proust

A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

Marcel Proust

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Marcel Proust

It is the tragedy of other people that they are merely showcases for the very perishable collections of one's own mind.

Marcel Proust

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right.

Marjane Satrapi

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

Mattie Stepanek

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

Matt Simpson

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Nikki Giovanni

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Nikki Giovanni

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

Nikki Giovanni

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

Nikki Giovanni