Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
"Chicago, which he once described to me as [...]", quoted by Kurt Vonnegut, 1986.
Nonfiction works
“The land of perfectionism can be easily reached by avoiding the major imperfections in life.”
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Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
Quote, (August 1914); as quoted in Franz Marc, horses, ed. Christian von Holst, Hatje Cantz Publishers, (undated), 15 December 1914, p.34
by the outbreak of World War 1. in August 1914 the animals had disappeared in Marc's art. Only colours and forms – the abstract – had to evoke the spiritual]
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“There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
As quoted in Honor Your Gifts (2007) by Dona M. Deane, p. 199.
Context: There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Richard M. Weaver (1910–1963) American scholar
“The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric,” p. 6.
The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)
“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”
Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Reverence for Life (1969)
Context: At sunset of the third day, near the village of Igendja, we moved along an island set in the middle of the wide river. On a sandback to our left, four hippopotamuses and their young plodded along in our same direction. Just then, in my great tiredness and discouragement, the phrase "Reverence for Life" struck me like a flash. As far as I knew, it was a phrase I had never heard nor ever read. I realized at once that it carried within itself the solution to the problem that had been torturing me. Now I knew that a system of values which concerns itself only with our relationship to other people is incomplete and therefore lacking in power for good. Only by means of reverence for life can we establish a spiritual and humane relationship with both people and all living creatures within our reach. Only in this fashion can we avoid harming others, and, within the limits of our capacity, go to their aid whenever they need us.
“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”
James Salter book A Sport and a Pastime
Source: A Sport and a Pastime
“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Feb. 15, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)