from T. S.

"Since golden October declined into sombre November

And the apples were gathered and stored, and the land became brown sharp points of death in a waste of water and mud."

~ T. S. Eliot ~   

from Ernest

"You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

A Moveable Feast

from Dr. Seuss

Today you are You,

that is truer than true.

There is no one alive who is

Youer than You.

~ Dr. Seuss ~

from Robert

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

from Ralph

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

from Bertrand

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

~ Bertrand Russell ~

from E. B.

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

~ E. B. White ~

from Mark

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear, and life stands explained."

~ Mark Twain ~

from Chuck

"A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart."

~ Chuck Palahniuk ~

from Alfred

"Though much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved heaven and earth, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek to find, and not to yield."

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~

from James

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

~ James Baldwin ~

from Joyce

"Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul."

~ Joyce Carol Oates ~

from Mark

"In a good book room you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

~ Mark Twain ~

from John

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."

~ John Updike ~

from William

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have time to read the reviews."

~ William Faulkner ~

from Emily

"Hope is the thing with feathers

that perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

and never stops at all."

~ Emily Dickinson ~

from Frances

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."

~ Frances Bacon ~

from Maya

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

~ Maya Angelou ~

from Gustave

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

from Alexander

"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open."

~ Alexander Graham Bell ~