Shannon Delany > Shannon's Quotes

“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction: if it could be told,
How much would novels gain by the exchange!
How differently the world would men behold!”
― George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince