Laura Riding Short Quotes

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Whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

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Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

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The next world is
As near to this
As time is similar
To truth familiar.

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I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still?'

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Women, ever since there have been women, have had a way of being people.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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Every thought sounds like a footfall, Till a thought like a boot kicks down the wall.

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My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

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In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

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The role of myth in contemporary ideology is that of a substitute for lived spiritual experience.

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Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

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Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

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Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

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The group is only interested in the formal publishing of individuals for the purpose of establishing their social solidarity.

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O vocables of love,
The end of an end is an echo,
A last cry follows a last cry.
Finality of finality Is perfection's touch of folly.

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

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Rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

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Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

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Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much — thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

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Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

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Without dressmakers to connect
The good-will of the body
With the purpose of the head,
We should be two worlds
Instead of a world and its shadow
The flesh.

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Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

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If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

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She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

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We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and we hear much that seems our speaking, yet makes us strange to ourselves.

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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

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We shall know that we have begun to speak true by an increased hunger for true-speaking; we shall have the whole hunger only after we have given ourselves the first taste of it.

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