5 quotes found
“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
“Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.”
“Well, cast your mind back to the books he wrote. What is the one theme that keeps recurring from book to book? It is that the woman doesnt fall in love with the man. The man may or may not love the...”
“Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. H...”
“How many of the ragged workingmen who pass him in the street are secret authors of works that will outlast them: roads, walls, pylons? Immortality of a kind, a limited immortality, is not so hard t...”