Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Edward McKendree Bounds (1835–1913) clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
The Weapon of Prayer.
Billie Holiday book Lady Sings the Blues
Variant: Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. And without feeling, whatever you do amounts to nothing.
Source: Lady Sings the Blues
Michael Shaara book The Killer Angels
Thomas Chamberlain and Joshua Chamberlain, Part I, CH 2: Chamberlain, p. 29
The Killer Angels (1974)
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
1872(?), page 99 <br class="br">Echoing the 1816 hymn Come Ye Disconsolate http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/c/y/d/cydiscon.htm by Thomas Moore: "Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal." <br class="br">John of the Mountains, 1938
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
As quoted in In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments (2005) by Jon Winokur, p. 144
“Earth is in space, too, so really sex in space isn't anything new.”
Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Ataol Behramoğlu (1942) Turkish writer
"How Awful When Poetry Ages As It Is Read"
I've Learned Some Things (2008)
Context: I'd make me into a brand new sailor if I were God
Maybe there were new things over there
It comes from within me to write as though rabid, I'm hungry, do you understand
Let the doctors call it what they will
Who can know anything best of all
What does it mean to know anything best
Which religion doesn't grow old