Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian “I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.” Faces Mirrors Rooms ♥ 4
E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist “A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.” Lying Mirrors Historical ♥ 3
MG Mira Grant Author “I've seen that mixture of resignation and hopelessness before; its usually in my mirror.” Mirrors Mixtures ♥ 4
Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer “-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.” Science Joy ♥ 3
Jo Brand Comedian, Writer “I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.” Looks Mirrors Fats ♥ 4
Barack Obama Politician “What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.” Children Taken Mirrors ♥ 3
Paulo Coelho Writer “What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.” Character Order Mirrors ♥ 3
Paulo Coelho Writer “What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.” Joy Adventure Mirrors ♥ 3
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet “Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.” Inspiration Mirrors Shadow ♥ 3
Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet “A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.” Beautiful Mirrors Poetry ♥ 3
Philip Roth Novelist “He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything on his powers of detachment, on de-narcissizing himself… Freud… studied his own dreams not because he was a “narcissist,” but because he was a student of dreams. And whose were at once the least and most accessible of dreams, if not his own?” Dream Artist Mirrors ♥ 3
Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist “Hallie and I... were all there was. The image in the mirror that proves you are still here. We had exactly one sister apiece. We grew up knowing the simple arithmetic of scarcity: A sister is more precious than an eye.” Eye Simple Mirrors ♥ 3
