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“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“With hand on the spade and heart in the sky Dress the ground and till it; Turn in the little seed, brown and dry, Turn out the golden millet. Work, and your house shall be duly fed: Work, and rest shall be won; I hold that a man had better be dead Than alive when his work is done.”

Men Heart Littles Done Hands Turns House Work Alive Sky Dresses Seeds Golden Dry Brown Feds Spades

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.”

Needs I Can Ideas Dream Turns Imagination White Issues Alive Finished Snow Developing Breathing Parks Wraps Need A Change Disneyland Snow White

Author:Walt Disney

“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”

Mind Ideas Past Turns Fantasy Alive Shapes Creating Pointing Live In The Present

Book:The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Source: The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”

“To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers.”

Ifs World Whole Hate Turns Voice Alive Possibility Embrace Instinct Whole World Teeth Tone Hopeful Endurance Feathers Turn-on Stunned

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.”

Dies Turns Speak Friendship Enemy Alive Becoming Blessed Killing Finals Tyranny Novelists Reasonable Quarters Liability

Book:It Can't Happen Here

Source: It Can't Happen Here

“And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.”

Giving Kind May Persons Christian Spirit Night Dies Turns Hope Natural Alive Eternity Contrary Hopelessness Describing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel

“If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.”

Ifs Today Turns Alive Graves

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.”

Source: On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will

“There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers, a kind of paste. Gradually that paste becomes more and more firm. Then there comes a point when it turns rubbery. Finally, you sense that the yeast has begun to do its work: the dough is alive. Then all you have to do is let it rest. But in the case of a book the work may take ten years.”

Writing Years Kind May Book Turns Cases Alive Stage Ten Sticks Fingers Bread Firm Dough Yeast

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“I always feed myself positivity. I turn to anything that teaches good, that teaches strength, and that you can make it. I swear to you that those kinds of thoughts come alive in your body and in anything you touch because your energy goes into everything you touch, everything you share and everything you speak. So, it's most important that you surround yourself with positivity always, and have it in your mind at all times.”

Mind Kind Important Body Turns Energy Speak Teach Alive Share Positivity Your Body All Time Surround Swear Surround Yourself

Author:Tyler Perry

“Going from crying to laughing that fast and hard happens maybe five times in your life and that extreme right turn is the reason why we are alive, and I believe it extends our life by many years.”

Years Believe Hard Reason Happens Turns I Believe Laughing Five Our Lives Alive Cry Please Extremes Reason Why

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“So I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.”

Giving Shows Turns Strong Cities Alive Proud Singing Show Me Cunning Coarse Sneer

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out.”

Want Feelings Dies Turns Stuff Alive Upset Buried

Author:Iyanla Vanzant