oscar wilde quotes on books and grand piano

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” – Oscar WildeĤ8.

It is never of any use to oneself.” – Oscar WildeĤ7.

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” – Oscar WildeĤ6.

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” – Oscar WildeĤ5. “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar WildeĤ4. “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” – Oscar WildeĤ3. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar WildeĤ2. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” – Oscar WildeĤ1. “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” – Oscar WildeĤ0. None of my friends are there.” – Oscar Wildeģ9. “You can never be overdressed or over-educated.” – Oscar Wildeģ8. “The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wildeģ7. “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wildeģ6. “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” – Oscar Wildeģ5. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wildeģ4. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. “Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.” – Oscar Wildeģ3. “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they’ll kill you.” – Oscar Wildeģ2. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” – Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wildeģ1. “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. I become more and more indifferent to my fate, as writer, and more and more certain of my destiny as a man.30. With the endless burrowing a certitude develops which is greater than faith or belief. I never hope to embrace the whole, but merely to give in each separate fragment, each work, the feeling of the whole as I go on, because I am digging deeper and deeper into life, digging deeper and deeper into past and future. ”From the very beginning almost I was deeply aware that there is no goal. It is this about art which is ‘therapeutic’: significance, purposefulness, infinitude. It is this quality about all art which gives it a metaphysical hue, which lifts it out of time and space and centers or integrates it to the whole cosmic process. It is a turning inside out, a voyaging through X dimensions, with the result that somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself. I am a man telling the story of his life, a process which appears more and more inexhaustible as I go on. Even now I do not consider myself a writer, in the ordinary sense of the word. ”I began in absolute chaos and darkness, in a bog or swamp of ideas and emotions and experiences. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become that path himself. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe.

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. Burroughs said: 'Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.' And Dolly Parton said: 'I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.' And Oscar Wilde said: 'It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.' I love them all! xo Right now I'm working on a new book about a cheetah and a deaf teenager. Every Thursday evening, I facilitate a storytelling class at the Lockhart Women's Prison here in Texas, and I've learned more about life from the women in the class than I have taught them, I'm quite sure. For the last ten years, I've been living in Austin, TX, a city that is very sweet + kind to artists ) Over the decades, I've worked as a motel chambermaid, real estate agent, dishwasher, bartender, assistant to a perfume designer, art model, copywriter, grantwriter, and restaurant manager. My MFA is from Michigan, which is a dearly beloved program. Rig I'm a fiend for books, bookstores, lit journals, found poetry, libraries, graffiti, artist books, diaries, screenplays-anything that tells a story. I'm a fiend for books, bookstores, lit journals, found poetry, libraries, graffiti, artist books, diaries, screenplays-anything that tells a story.

Oscar wilde quotes on books and grand piano