Julien Green Quotes

American - Novelist September 6, 1900 - August 13, 1998

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

Julien Green

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Julien Green

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. Julien Green

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Julien Green

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

Julien Green

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

Julien Green

What is real is beyond all reach.

Julien Green

Robyn Davidson Quotes

Australian - Writer Born: September 6, 1950

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

Robyn Davidson

The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Robyn Davidson

Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

Robyn Davidson

Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.

Robyn Davidson

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life that it would be foolish to disregard or underrate. And mad to destroy.

Robyn Davidson

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.

Robyn Davidson

There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.

Robyn Davidson