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“The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.”
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
― Inherit the Wind: The Powerful Courtroom Drama in which Two Men Wage the Legal War of the Century
“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”
― Cocktail Time
― Cocktail Time
“There is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of man.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“At the beginning of all love there is a private treaty each of the lovers makes with himself or herself, an agreement to set aside what is wrong with the other for the sake of what is right. Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life's wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold. When that warmth is born in the heart the imperfections of the beloved are as nothing, less than nothing, and the secret treaty with oneself is easy to sign. The voice of doubt is stilled. Later, when love fades, the secret treaty looks like folly, but if so, it's a necessary folly, born of lovers' belief in beauty, which is to say, in the possibility of the impossible thing, true love.”
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“...this is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn’t have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too.”
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
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