#us

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#because #equal #fiction #good #more

My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#energy #got #hasn #just #prose

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#else #finding #full #house #know

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#everyday #everyday life #find #heart #just

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#bare #completely #debate #divide #flesh

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#follies #mischievous #ones #very #wars

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#black and white #cinema #just #made #silent

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#because #few #few people #i #i think

Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#burned #daughters #deep #dna #fear