Meaningful · 5:48pm May 9th, 2015
"You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer...God save me from being 'nice"
~D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, English writer, "Phoenix" (1927)
"If only people had the gift of knowing when they were bored and the courage to admit the fact openly when it was discovered, how many novelists, poets, playwrights, musicians and entertainers would be compelled to join the ranks of the unemployed?"
~Arnold Bennett, Journals of Arnold Bennett (1896-1910)
"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."
~Henry Havelock Ellis, 1859-1939, British social reformer
"We live as we dream--alone"
~Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, Heart of Darkness
"Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings..."
~Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, 1888-1953, Chu-Yin, Marco Millions (1928)
"To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep."
~Chinese proverb
"He who looks too much at his dream becomes like a shadow"
~Indian proverb
"Telling the truth loses you friends; not telling it gains you enemies,"
Juan Ruiz, c. 1290-c. 1350, Libro De Buen Amor (c. 1330)
