Until that moment Vetch had watched him with an anxious dread, for he was not sure what had happened there in the dark land. He did not know if this was Ged in the boat with him, and his hand had been...
Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
They made love. Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. When it was made, they lay in each other's arms, holding love, asleep.
There was something lacking – in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not strong enough to take what was so generously offered. He felt himself dry and arid, like a desert pl...
There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.
The infinite possibility, the unlimited and unqualified wholeness of being of the uncommitted, the nonacting, the uncarved: the being who, being nothing but himself, is everything.
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.The artist whose medium is fiction does this The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.
Life in the auntring, or for a settled man, is repetitive, as I said; and so it can be dull. Nothing new happens. The mind always wants new happenings.
Lanet olsun! dedi yüksek sesle. Pravca, küfür etmek için iyi bir dil değildi. Cinsellik pis bir şey olmayınca, günaha girme diye bir şey de olmayınca küfretmek zordur.
La luz es la mano de la izquierda de la oscuridad, y la oscuridad es la mano derecha de la luz.Las dos son una, vida y muerte, juntascomo amantes en kémmer, como manos unidas, como el término y el cam...
It might derail and we'll all be killed. And if we do come to Aisnar? What's Aisnar? Mere hearsay.-—That's morbid, Kasimir said, glimpsing again the walls collapsing.-—No, exhilarating, his friend ans...
It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we en...
It is a durable, ubiquitous, specious metaphor, that one about veneer (or paint, or pliofilm, or whatever) hiding the nobler reality beneath. It can conceal a dozen fallacies at once. One of the most...
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
In general she had found that the main drawback in being a man was that conversations were less interesting.
In fact, while we read a novel, we are insane – bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren’t there, we hear their voices, we watch the battle of Borodino with them, we may even become Nap...
In Enlad, said Arren after a while, we have a story about the boy whose schoolmasterwas a stone:'Aye?... What did he learn?Not to ask questions.
Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place in the vocabulary of profit-making.
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to...