“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.” LiteratureMemoriesCareersTruth IsDemandEdgesNightmareNervesLiving On Author:Herbert Gold
“We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always” Has BeensEnoughSeemsLeftMemoriesViewsMountainConversionEnthusiasmCellsGloriousNervesBondageFillingStandpointScarceNewnessQuiverKindlingNewness Of Life Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations
“The woman who became the Duchesse d'Angoulême did indeed have painful memories, but she was not only very brave but I would say she had "nerves of steel." As I wrote in the book, one woman, defeated, one woman, defiant.” BookMemoriesBravePainfulNervesDefeatedSteelOne WomanPainful Memories Author:Susan Nagel