#rejection

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love. ↗

— Anita Diament

#deeply #even #getting #give #i

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#also #attack #both #breaking #comprises

Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#challenge #check #christians #commitment #convenience

If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#catholic-philosophy #catholic-thought #christian-philosophy #christianity #history-of-ideas

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#death

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#love #rejection #death

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#rejection #writing-life #death

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#been #good #handle #hard #here

I'm fresh out of fucks to give. ↗

— Tucker Max

#rejection #sex #humor