Kathleen Raine Quotes
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.
Quotes to Explore
-
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
-
I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
-
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
-
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
-
Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.
-
The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
-
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
-
It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?
-
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
-
I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'
-
Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
-
I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something.
-
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
-
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
-
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
-
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.
-
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
-
Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
-
Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; -& they are the life, the soul of reading; - take them out of this book for instance, - you might as well take the book along with them.
-
I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
-
The failure of the Reformation to capture France had left for Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to the cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers.
-
Everyone moves for reason. You need a reason to leave everything behind.
-
As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
-
I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.
