Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.
I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
My balance is really bad. I just hope my clumsiness doesn't show through.
In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.
Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration (which are much the same thing).
Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.