C. T. Vivian Quotes

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.

The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.

I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

They say writers sell everybody out. What can you do? You know only the people you know.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

What feminism did was make clear for me how much I longed for clarity. I got married twice, each time in a fog. I had so many complicated feelings I couldn't understand.

You can't reduce an actual human being; you're just writing! You're not doing anything to another person.

I was never an activist, in the sense that I didn't really join a lot of organizations. I wasn't out in the streets. But what I did become was a writer. My activism was in writing.

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.

I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see might cause pain. But I am not doing the hurting.

What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

When I work I feel more alive than under any other circumstances. There's not an 'I love you' in the world that can match it. I feel safe, excited, at peace, erotic, centered. Nothing can touch me.

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.

in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.

Social media is the greatest boon to journalism since the printing press.

The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.

If you see something you don't understand, smash it.

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.

They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.

Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.

Some people would rather be right than free.

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".

Only in the silence of our mind are we One.

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego.

Know your real Self, beyond who you think you are.

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

As the Weaver, so is the Thread

I let myself have feelings for you despite not knowing how this would end.

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation

The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be

Problems are solved from the inside out not the other way around.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. And, that's a whole other story.

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.”“Oh, you found someone else? With less money?

Celebrate my heart, at ease or on fire, in my usual featherbrained way.Horace, Roman PoetOde I-6, 23 BCE

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all.....not by force, but by grace.

All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.

When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.

The prayer that is heard is not of many words....but of Oneness