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the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page

the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page
– Peter Ackroyd

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  1. the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page – Peter Ackroyd
  2. If contemporary literary fiction doesn’t read a bit like science fiction then it’s probably not all that contemporary, is it – Warren Ellis
  3. My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all. – AnnMarie MacDonald
  4. Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow. – Tisha Marie Payton
  5. Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity. – Debasish Mridha
  6. So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day. – Peter Ackroyd
  7. So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight. – Peter Ackroyd
  8. One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one’s own bad lines. – Peter Ackroyd
  9. Women, of their nature, crave for liberty; they will not be ordered around like servants. – Peter Ackroyd
  10. I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable – Peter Ackroyd
  11. To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone. – Peter Ackroyd
  12. A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil – Peter Ackroyd
  13. What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement? – Peter Ackroyd
  14. I am the scourge of God – Peter Ackroyd
  15. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. – Peter Ackroyd
  16. I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon – Peter Ackroyd
  17. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Adversity could be an advantage in the future. To be a success, take the advantage of adversity whenever possible. – Debasish Mridha
  19. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage… – Max McKeown
  20. …while extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time…is people. – Mark Salsbury
  21. Young men do not respect girls they can take advantage of – and they do not as easily take advantage of girls they respect. – Sarah Mally
  22. My family came to this country to take advantage of opportunity, not to take advantage of America. – Jake Danishevsky
  23. He didn’t want to take advantage of her? Fine, she’d take advantage of him. – Katie Reus
  24. To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. – Lorii Myers
  25. To forget oneself-to lose oneself in the music, in the moment- that kind of absorption seems to be at the heart of every creative endeavor. – Dani Shapiro
  26. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. – TA Miles
  27. One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. – Marty Rubin
  28. [It’s] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97 – Marcel Benabou
  29. It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. – Sylvia Townsend Warner
  30. When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself – Lao Tzu
  31. Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit. – Michael Holbrook
  32. As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. – William H G
  33. I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page – Laurie Halse Anderson
  34. We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love – it is not the book itself, but the binding. – Deb Caletti
  35. A blank page has more power than a full page with blind thoughts. – Debasish Mridha
  36. A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page. – Israelmore Ayivor
  37. Writing is a competition between the writer and the page. When the page wins, you fail as a writer. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  38. (I. F. Stone had once called it an exciting paper to read because you never knew on what page you would find a page-one story), – David Halberstam
  39. Mistake is a single page in a part of Life ….but Relation is a book of dictionary —–So don’t lose a full Book for a single page. – Rubeccapalm Rose
  40. You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. – Jodi Picoult

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