#charles

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#debauchery #decadence #poetry #life

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds) ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#lily-briscoe #philosophy #beauty

Sometimes you have to do things you don't like in order to make a change in the world. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#miasma #change

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio. ↗

— Millicent Martin

#charles #i #like #little #pierce

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#disease #victorian #experience

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#kora-in-hell #modernist-poets #red-wheel-barrow #this-is-just-to-say #life

Is it like a Harry Potter thing?" He turned his head then. "A what?" "A Harry Potter thing," she said again. "You know, don't say Voldemort's name because you might attract his attention?" He considered it. "You mean the children's book." "I have got to get you to watch more movies," she said. "You'd enjoy these. Yes, I mean the children's book. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#humor #humor

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY) ↗

— John Clute

#charles-nodier #nodier #dreams

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#injustice #injustice

Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it? ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#family #julia #family