Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.
I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
I can relate to Marguerite Duras even though I'm not French, nor have I been consumed by love for an East Asian man. I can life inside Alice Munro's skin. But I can't relate to my own mother. My body...
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not availa...
In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
Malcolm Lowry Late of the Bowery His prose was flowery And often glowery He lived, nightly, and drank, daily, And died playing the ukulele