Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent — which attitude certainly has a great deal to support it.
~ James Baldwin
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
~ Diane Arbus
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If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
~ Mark Twain
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
~ Sun Tzu
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Our waking life’s desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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We are always the same age inside.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him who is unarmed, or that the unarmed man should be secure among armed servants. Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work well together.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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