I met God. 'What,' he said, 'you already?' 'What,' I said, 'you still? Laura Riding More Quotes by Laura Riding More Quotes From Laura Riding Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. Laura Riding running people art I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest. Laura Riding me passion love relationship Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. Laura Riding indeed source creative art I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.' Laura Riding i-am nature responsibility truth If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell. Laura Riding will know you speak