Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Variant: The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
Source: The Bell Jar
“Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.”
— Clive Staples Lewis, book Surprised by Joy
Surprised by Joy (1955)
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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes
Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician
Escudero, F. [Francis]. (2014, December 16). Retrieved from Official Facebook Page of Francis Escudero https://www.facebook.com/senchizescudero/posts/10152913871520610/ <br class="br">2014, Facebook <br class="br">Variant: There should be a top to bottom revamp of the Bureau of Corrections. Replacing the head is not enough. That has been done several times before and did not work.
“There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it.”
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer
Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 218
Context: There is something to be said for losing one’s possessions, after nothing can be done about it. I had loved my Nanking home and the little treasures it had contained, the lovely garden I had made, my life with friends and students. Well, that was over. I had nothing at all now except the old clothes I stood in. I should have felt sad, and I was quite shocked to realize that I did not feel sad at all. On the contrary, I had a lively sense of adventure merely at being alive and free, even of possessions. No one expected anything of me. I had no obligations, no duties, no tasks. I was nothing but a refugee, someone totally different from the busy young woman I had been. I did not even care that the manuscript of my novel was lost. Since everything else was gone, why not that?
“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Source: Attributed from posthumous publications, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954), p. 100; Ch. 12, April 28, 1938.
Context: The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Reading (1990)
Virginia Satir (1916–1988) American psychologist
Brief biography http://www.avanta.net/writings/biography/biography.html at Avanta.net (1999)
Richard Matheson book I Am Legend
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 3
Context: Something black and of the night had come crawling out of the Middle Ages. Something with no framework or credulity, something that had been consigned, fact and figure, to the pages of imaginative literature. Vampires were passé; Summers’ idylls or Stoker’s melodramatics or a brief inclusion in the Britannica or grist for the pulp writer’s mill or raw material for the B-film factories. A tenuous legend passed from century to century.
Well, it was true.
Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer
Source: The Bone House (2011), p. 56