S.L. Wallace Quotes
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.
Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.
Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill.
Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.
Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.
The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."
If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
You cannot give everyone more in cash market value than you take from him, but you can give him more in use value than the cash value of the thing you take from him.
He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.
To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.
The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
Do not let other people decide what you are to be. Be what you feel you want to be.
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
