"The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name, to tell the truth in such a beautiful way, that people cannot live without ..."
- Jane Kenyon
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
- Jane Austen
"I used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. I hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose ..."
- Jane Hamilton
"It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of tric..."
"But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible."
"My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?"
"What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar."
- Jane Rogers
"Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness."
- Dejan Stojanovic
"It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easil..."
"In the essence of truth lies deceit."