“My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.”
Source: The Prince of Tides
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American novelist 1945–2016Related quotes
“without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
The Doom of Devorgoil, Bonny Dundee (1830), Chorus.
“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life
A Superscription. Compare: "My name is might have been; my name is never was; my name's forgotten", Courtney Love (with Hole), "Celebrity Skin".
Source: The House of Life (1870—1881)
“My wounds are open
my eyes gone blind
these filthy lies
I can not hideǃ”
Mara Balls (1983) Finnish musician
“I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Source: The White Book
“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”
Joseph Addison book Cato
Act I, scene iv.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)