Over time I learned that there were a lot of people who would judge you, blame you, and try to make you… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without… — Russell Edson Copy Share Image
“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth;… — Edward FitzGerald Copy Share Image
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo… — John Barth Copy Share Image
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free… — James Farley Copy Share Image
