Quotes of the day, January 12

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

• Beautiful
• Ugly
• Self-ignorance

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

• Face
• Swallow
• Olive

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

Ethan Canin

• Life
• Question
• Turn Out

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

Whitney Houston

• Believe
• Long
• Shadow

To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.

Will Gluck

• Thinking
• Giving
• Cutting

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Haruki Murakami

• Love
• Hungry
• Fill