Dan Moore

“She endured her own nature and supposed it to be the burden of another's.”
― Charles Williams, Descent into Hell

“Melmotte is really little more than rumor and illusion; his sudden rise is due less to any deep scheming or villainy on his part than to society's apparent inability to enforce its own standards.”
― Robert Tracy, Trollope's Later Novels

“As Henry Dan Piper, one of Fitzgerald's most perceptive critics, has commented, his fiction heroes "are destroyed because they attempt to fulfill themselves through their social relationships. They cannot distinguish between social values like popularity, charm, and success, and the more lasting moral values." Their creator did make that distinction, however, and so was constantly surrounding his characters with a mist of admiration and then blowing it away.”
― Scott Donaldson, Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Their singing wasn’t particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.”
― William Saroyan, The Human Comedy