“This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.”
― Dark Age Ahead
― Dark Age Ahead
“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.”
― And Yet ...: Essays
― And Yet ...: Essays
“All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood All partial Evil, universal Good. —ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man”
― The Fate of Katherine Carr: A Novel
― The Fate of Katherine Carr: A Novel
“I’ll lay a bet,” said Sancho, “that before long there won’t be a tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber’s shop where the story of our doings won’t be painted up; but I’d like it painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these.” “Thou art right, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “for this painter is like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him what he was painting, used to say, ‘Whatever it may turn out’; and if he chanced to paint a cock he would write under it, ‘This is a cock,’ for fear they might think it was a fox.” —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote”
― The Forgery of Venus
― The Forgery of Venus
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