Mignon G. Eberhart quotes

“there is no gateway to maturity; there is no line that is crossed. Maturity is like a maze, one path leading to another; it is like a great building full of corridors, one turning into another. Did anybody ever reach the end, so there was a clear way ahead, so he could say, now I am rich with knowledge, now I know all the answers?”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

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“murder is not polite.”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

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“Murder is a plant of slow growth ...”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

Source : Mignon G. Eberhart (2012). “The Chiffon Scarf”, p.127, Overamstel Uitgevers

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“The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

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“contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

Source : Mignon G. Eberhart (2016). “Five Passengers From Lisbon”, p.59, Pickle Partners Publishing

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“A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

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“I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.”
-- Mignon G. Eberhart

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“You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.”

“O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.”

“Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.”

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

“I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.”

“They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.”

Source : "After Gaza disengagement, then what? Speculation intensifies" by Jack Epstein, www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2005.

“The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.”

“If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.”

“So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.”