Kato > Kato's Quotes

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”
― T.S. Eliot

“Halfway up the drive there was
God these tedious details.
Halfway up there was a…”
― John Banville, The Book of Evidence

“The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.”
― John Banville

“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”
― Dylan Thomas

“Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.”
― Dylan Thomas

“We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the window that should not have been open”
― T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion

“When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes
many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.
It consists of piracy, ego and, more than anything, money.
War is our century's prostitution.”
― Thomas Stearns Eliot