Rebecca Trotter > Rebecca's Quotes

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“I hate being told by strange men in the street to smile, to make them feel better about their boring lives”
― Julie Deply "Celine"

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.”
― Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

“Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.”
― Richard Linklater

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

“After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone.”
― Larry Brown

“I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose hair and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars, looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you.”
― Larry Brown, Big Bad Love

“I only had one life, and I'd be damned if I'd live it in a way that would make me unhappy and please somebody else. I had already lived that kind of life, too much of it already.”
― Larry Brown, Big Bad Love

“I can understand why people jump off bridges.”
― Larry Brown, Facing the Music

“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)”
― Larry Brown

“I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
― richard brautigan

“I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Money is sad shit”
― Richard Brautigan, The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

“I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren't worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it. She wanted her next lover to be a broom.”
― Richard Brautigan, Sombrero Fallout

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”
― Richard Brautigan

“I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.”
― Richard Brautigan

“He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.”
― Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?”
― Christopher Paolini

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds