Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf Category: Past
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir Category: Past
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its not really any very heady fame. – Peter Carey Category: famous
Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations. – Djuna Barnes Category: Sleep