“I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.” ThinkingTwoBodyAbleCertainThreeVoiceFictionFivePaperProfessionFiction WritersSchizophrenic Author:Ridley Pearson
“I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body.” WritingMindI CanUseBodyFiveExerciseStretchingNimble Author:Anna Olson
“Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.” BelieveWellsLongArtSoulReasonBodyChristianEnemyFiveFourSensesTheeBreathingRelyLive ByCrossingsContradictingEvangelistsFive SensesSoul Life Author:Thomas Brooks
“Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.” RealBodyLanguageRealizingFictionFiveSixSenses Author:Bodhidharma
“The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.” WorldChildrenCountryBodyWould BeTurnsThreeHouseHoursFiveRiskGunPartnersOther CountriesWoundedFoldsSuppliesIntruders Author:Gloria Steinem
“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.” GivingHumansHeartSelfBodyYoungDiesWhiteEffortBoysFiveStupidTwentiesSoldierAthleteFiftyFortyHuman HeartSignalsPurpleImpressiveLaurelsDie YoungMenopauseGallantGallantryPurple Heart Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.” YearsSoulBodyFiveYears AgoTwentiesBurdenChristmasFive YearsRidiculeTrashFatigueTwenty FiveWearinessWeighingQuid Pro Quo Author:Margaret Deland