R.J. Lawrence Quotes

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting up a worldwide club of ruling bullies.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else.

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

They kept saying 'It's sushi-grade!' And I'm like... 'Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.

I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals...I would call me more of a monkey.

I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful.

The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.

Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

It's better to look strong and healthy.

If a woman is determined, she will get what she wants because we are very determined creatures.

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.