Alexander C. Irvine Quotes
The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
Alexander C. Irvine
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
D. Elton Trueblood
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
Lady Gregory
Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson
Do any of us believe in what we are doing here? I doubt it. Her NCO husband least of all. We are given an old racetrack and a quantity of barbed wire and told to effect a change in men's souls. Not being experts on the soul but assuming cautiously that it has some connection with the body, we set our captives to doing pushups and marching back and forth.
J. M. Coetzee
I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.
Nam June Paik
I'd been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn't, right then.
Wanda Jackson
Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.
Andrew Solomon
Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown
When I was 20, I wrote a film on spec and sent it to the BBC. They wrote back, 'Usually, when we reject submissions, we like to offer some encouragement, but in your case, we don't see any point in you continuing.' I took it as encouragement anyway, thinking that only people who write terrible things are capable of writing great things.
Jon Ronson
The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.
Alexander C. Irvine
