Sy Safransky quotes

“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.”
-- Sy Safransky

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“The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.”
-- Sy Safransky

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“In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.”
-- Sy Safransky

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“How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.”
-- Sy Safransky

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“After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.”
-- Sy Safransky

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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

“Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.”

“With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.”

Source : Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 54

“And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.”

“I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently”

Source : FaceBook post by Aaron Scheidies from Mar 27, 2014

“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc