Eric Norris

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


Hitchcock
Eric Norris is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Fasti
Eric Norris is currently reading
by Ovid
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Collected Sto...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 6 books that Eric is reading…
Loading...
Tom Stoppard
“A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.”
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

Graham Greene
“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Graham Greene, The Third Man

Alexander Pope
“I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”
Alexander Pope

Tom Stoppard
“It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.”
Tom Stoppard, Arcadia

Tom Stoppard
“Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.”
Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

year in books
Suzanne
3,584 books | 98 friends

Andrew H
1,613 books | 243 friends

Răzvan
783 books | 1,559 friends

Michael...
166 books | 234 friends

Jeffery...
1,038 books | 347 friends

Steve Wang
904 books | 48 friends

Zelda
2,074 books | 393 friends

Paul Me...
616 books | 104 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Eric

Lists liked by Eric