With extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
what are you looking for? There is no Truth. There's only action, action obeying a million different impulses, ephemeral action, action subjected… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Some ephemeral moments must be given a memory, because the temporality of an instant may radiate a twinkle of eternity.( "Crystallization under… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance… — Philip Gambone Copy Share Image
It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion… — William A. Niskanen Copy Share Image
A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent,… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“But then, as she knew too well, the more fondly we imagine something will last forever, the more ephemeral it often proves… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment,… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as… — David Wright Copy Share Image
I just really like writing and making television shows. There are ego rewards in doing battle with other television programs in prime… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
