Adrift Quote by Simone de Beauvoir Download Open image “Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.” — Simone de Beauvoir ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adrift Books Born Library Life Literature
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not. — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In fact, people seem to be tired of fiction now. There are so many other ways of exploring humanity - by ethnology, psychoanalysis, and so on. It's a little boring to make up stories. So many people think that it's better to be very close to reality and to recount one's life as it is rather than to fictionalize, as… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
“Magari mi troverai ridicola, ma mi disprezzerei se non osassi esserlo mai” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
And if I can't be with you I would rather have a different face And if I can't be near you I would rather… — Neil Finn Copy Share Image
And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the eyelids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share
Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a man. What moves at… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as it were,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
She cried out into his kiss, her hands clawing his shoulders, adrift now in a pleasure that threatened to consume her. In her sexual… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift. — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
We do not choose to be born.We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of our death. But within all this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we shall live--Courageously or in cowardice, Honorably or dishonorably, With purpose or adrift. We decide what is important and what is trivial. What makes us significant is… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's 'Set Adrift… — King Krule Copy Share Image
A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
