Peter Perhac

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Peter.

https://www.goodreads.com/peterperhac

Tai-Pan
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 183 of 738)
May 04, 2026 12:22PM

 
In Search of Lost...
Rate this book
Clear rating


 
Book cover for The Cornish Coast Murder
the police would take things out of his hands. It was their job to apprehend criminals. It was his job to instil his fellow-men with a brotherly love which would make criminals impossible.
Loading...
Norman Douglas
“Mr. Frederick Parker spent a good deal of his time in endeavouring to mask, under a cloak of boisterous good humour, a really remarkable combination of malevolence and imbecility.”
Norman Douglas, South Wind

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.”
Peter Watts, Blindsight

Norman Douglas
“I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific trend of the times. You cannot obtain a useful citizen if you only develop his intellect. We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good. But we fail to give them that training in character which parents alone can give. Home influence, as Grace Aguilar conceived it " where has it gone? It strikes me that this is a grave danger for the future. We are rearing up a brood of crafty egoists, a generation whose earliest recollections are those of getting something for nothing from the State.

I am inclined to trace our present social unrest to this over-valuation of the intellect. It hardens the heart and blights all generous impulses. What is going to replace the home, Mr. Keith?”
Norman Douglas, South Wind

Robert Falcon Scott
“Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.”
Robert Falcon Scott, Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals

Norman Douglas
“The land is encrusted with ephemeral human conceits. That is not altogether good for a youngster; it disarranges his mind and puts him out of harmony with what is permanent. Just listen a moment. Here, if you are wise, you will seek an antidote. Taken in over-dose, all these churches and pictures and books and other products of our species are toxins for a boy like you. They falsify your cosmic values. Try to be more of an animal. Try to extract pleasure from more obvious sources. Lie fallow for a while. Forget all these things. Go out into the midday glare. Sit among rocks and by the sea. Have a look at the sun and stars for a change; they arc just as impressive as Donatello. Find yourself! You know the Cave of Mercury? Climb down, one night of full moon, all alone, and rest at its entrance. Familiarize yourself with elemental things. The whole earth reeks of humanity and its works. One has to be old and tough to appraise them at their true worth. Tell people to go to Hell, Denis, with their altar-pieces and museums and clock- towers and funny little art-galleries.”
Norman Douglas, South Wind

36119 Reading with Style — 1467 members — last activity 3 hours, 51 min ago
A seasonal competition designed for the reader who enjoys discovering new authors, genres, and time periods.
9876 Terminalcoffee — 1735 members — last activity 5 hours, 33 min ago
A place to chat about anything that emerges. We're pretty relaxed, and our attitudes mostly are mild. Make friends. Be authentic. Get mad. Laugh. ...more
220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 325501 members — last activity 9 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
year in books
Manny
6,199 books | 4,950 friends

Kenny
4,552 books | 1,575 friends

Gerhard
3,424 books | 314 friends

Lee Pre...
658 books | 1,099 friends

Chris
2,346 books | 240 friends

Yevgeni...
2,051 books | 129 friends

Slavo J...
135 books | 21 friends

Ema
Ema
844 books | 47 friends

More friends…
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryTrue Grit by Charles Portis
Best Westerns
1,424 books — 1,602 voters




Polls voted on by Peter

Lists liked by Peter