19 quotes found
“People perish. Books are immortal.”
“Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.”
“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”
“People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)”
“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195”
“To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend I suppose I ought to have realize its ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to pro...”
“And the great thing about money is that it doesnt matter when you harvest it. Its an all-year crop.”
“Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had no faith in any of it. Faith in mathematics, yes; faith in logic, of course; f...”
“Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin the desks too big, the desks too small, theres too much noise, theres too much quiet, its too hot, ...”
“A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and its halfway to being just like ever...”
“The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to walk erect or to be dragged complaining through the dust.”
“Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of th...”
“Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82”
“Right, you see that girl over there, the one in that group that keeps looking right at you?'...'Right, let's say I'm convinced she's wearing black knickers - she looks like a black knickers kind of...”
“...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...”
“Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called heightened interrogation. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulate...”
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this...”
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.”
