Acceptance Quote by Criss Jami

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“Have I ever done anything of my own, an act or state that arose from Elefsis, and not careful, exquisite mimicry? Have they?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The whole story, paradoxically enough, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion into the preposterous sends us back with renewed pleasure to the…

— C.S. Lewis

“We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“... there’s a point at which rampant prudery becomes more embarrassing than run-of-the-mill prurience”

— Devika Bakshi

“So much good my persecutors have done me by recklessly pouring out all the shafts of their hatred. They have deprived themselves of any…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“iniquities of the Puseyites.”

— Anthony Trollope

“. . . these errand-boys and furtive and fugitive girls who, ignoring their doom, look in at shop windows? But I am aware of our ephemeral passage.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”

— Reinaldo Arenas

“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.”

— Anonymous

“Tolerate the dull: they too have their story”

— Max Ehrman

“When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it...”

— Sanhita Baruah