Jacob Antolini > Jacob's Quotes

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men