“Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above.”
Source: When The Cedars Shade Your Grave
“What's the book like?"
"Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!”
Source: Ghostwritten
“These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do."
"But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“mas é bonito, sim, ver as coisas de alguém espalhadas pela casa. dá amor pela pessoa e pela casa. é uma partitura de como a vida se desenrola naquele lugar.”
Source: Uma delicada coleção de ausências
“The books [poetry collections] may not sell, but neither are they given away or thrown away. They tend, more than other books, to fall apart in their owners’ hands. Not I suppose good news in a culture and economy built on obsolescence. But for a book to be loved this way and turned to this way for consolation and intense renewable excitement seems to me a marvel.”
“There are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.”
Source: All Things Considered
“Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.”