Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
– Fay Weldon
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- When I was in my twenties and broke, I’d buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life. – Gabrielle Zevin
- guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine – Fay Weldon
- Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually – Fay Weldon
- For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it. – Fay Weldon
- Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them. – Fay Weldon
- Go on,- he offered magnanimously. -œFeel free to piss on yourselves andcower helplessly.-Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him. – GA Aiken
- Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion. – Jean Cocteau
- Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER! – Johanna Oznowicz
- God is also need money to sustain his existence on this earth. – Tanmaya Guru
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- I feel like one of those cartoon characters helplessly following the scent of something yummy when I’m near him. – J Saman
- Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. – Joyce Carol Oates
- But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her. – Marie Lu
- There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. – James Weldon Johnson
- There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music. – James Weldon Johnson
- Your Philosophy in Life Should be to Support others without expecting them To Support Back. – Sami Abouzid
- People should always find support and understanding in you. Then they will support you 100%. – Sunday Adelaja
- I do not support vengeance. I support justice. They are not one in the same. – Mark Andrew Poe
- To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained – there are times when there is no greater act of defiance. – Jessica Fechtor
- Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. – John Paul II
- words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. – Jodi Picoult
- There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets. – Robert Caro
- When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets. – Nabil Sabio Azadi
- The gnomons’s shadow falls where it falls – and so do we. Where we are now is where a lifetime’s worth of steps have taken us. – Samantha Sotto
- What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don’t. Jesus. – Beth Moore
- Human language falls short of expressing all that He is, even as a thimble lacks capacity to hold Niagara Falls. – Blake Western
- Existence of existence depends on what exists on your existence!! – Balkrishn Sanmotra
- The fact that we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of something does not put existence and non-existence on an even footing. – Richard Dawkins
- Sighing, he settled into his chair, watching the vision of space at his front. It was stoic, calm, and never ending-”deadly, if you weren’t careful. – Kiersten Fay
- It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order – and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order. – Douglas R Hofstadter
- Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. – Mike MacDonald
- Peace is not the absence of chaos or conflict, but rather finding yourself in the midst of that chaos and remaining calm in your heart. – John Mroz
- Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos. – Debasish Mridha
- If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn’t a single war started by anarchists? – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
- be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos. – Abdul Mueed
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- My mother was an avid reader…She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes… – Adriana Trigiani
- I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. – Lailah Gifty Akita