“Nothing is durable, I think anybody who thinks sex is durable is going to have a lot of grief.” Quote by Gore Vidal
“I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out.” KnowsYearsLongHas BeensCultureImaginationOur LivesSubjectsEmotionalIntellectualContemplatingAngleMeaning Of Love Author:Bell Hooks
“Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.” ImagineAffairDecadesLove AffairMacabre Author:Gore Vidal
“When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to large audiences and even had wee one-on-one conversations with children about the way they think about love. I talked about love in every state, everywhere I traveled.” ThinkingWayChildrenStatesAudienceConversationTraveledMetaphysicsOne On One Author:Bell Hooks
“The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.” StillsGenerationsNovelistsParisItalianImprovingMy Generation Author:Gore Vidal
“All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.” MatterKindnessBuiltFoundationLoving Kindness Author:Bell Hooks
“When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.” ThinkingWritingMindMayEndsActionSocialCausesChallengesLove IsReaderCriticismParadigmProvocative Author:Bell Hooks
“A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.” MeanLove IsCommonChildhoodChangedTaughtAssumptionThemeAdulthoodMisguidedLove MeansFalse Assumptions Author:Bell Hooks
“People need to feed themselves, next they need to feed their own communities.” PeopleNeedsNextCommunity Author:Wendell Berry
“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsLongSometimesChristianPastUsedSpeakLanguageRealizingChristianityOpinionTakenLong TimeUselessConventional Author:Wendell Berry
“Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsWritingHumansKindArtSelfNightSongEffortEnemyTomorrowSatisfactionTrue YouSelf-satisfactionDomesticity Author:Paul McCartney