Quotes of: Posthumous Keyword

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that’s what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.

Roberto Bolano

...wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Volume 1 of 2

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Orson Scott Card

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Jean Cocteau

Some men are born posthumously.

The Anti-Christ

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.

Santosh Kalwar

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Felix Dennis

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Doris Lessing

Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enj...

A Posthumous Confession

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

Christopher Hitchens

Having a memoir and a retrospective of your work running almost simultaneously when you're still alive does feel a bit posthumous.

Anthony Browne

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Tennessee Williams

POSTHUMOUS POSTPONEMENT FACT: Unlike airplanes, many dreams take off after the pilot's departure Kamil Ali

Profound Vers-A-Tales

Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long to balance the equation, but it can only be balanced posthumously.

Richard Eyre

This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.

The Anti-Christ

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Gloria Steinem

When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as it were - with the cute busboy at the hotel.

Edmund White