“You are not my mother. You are a scary Snort!”
― Are You My Mother?
― Are You My Mother?
“He has the merit—if it is one—of saying exactly what he means.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“The city centre was still crawling with Christmas shoppers looking to add to their already burgeoning piles of gifts. To Scott they were like ants at a picnic, teeming from store to store, trailing oversized carrier bags and infants behind them as they went. Scott felt alien in this environment; pulling up his hood he hurried through the crowds, dodging pushchairs, lit cigarettes and charity collection tins.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
― The Agony and the Ecstasy
― The Agony and the Ecstasy
“To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
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