#tru

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#emotional #emotional truth #experience #novel #rather

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster. ↗

— Noelle Oxenhandler

#humour #life #melancholy #the-art-of-wishing #truth

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#truth #used #wait #world

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#troubles #beauty

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale. ↗

— Barbara Castle

#always #churchill #even #had #how

Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#african #african american #american #angelou #believes

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ↗

— Willa Cather

#ghastly #god #hands #i #i think

My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person. ↗

— Roberto Cavalli

#associated #entertaining #i #i am #name

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#disgust #disorder #distract #doth #life