John Kelleher

“The poor girl doesn’t eat enough to be either depraved or virtuous.”
― Camilo José Cela, The Hive

“But of course really there was no intent, and indeed no treat, and in many ways my cousin could be seen as a bore, as an eccentric pedant with a kind of world-weariness which was simply tedious. He too after all had had his disappointments and about the most important of these I would doubtless never know. I suppose what I wanted was simply some ordinary amicable converse with James, which never happened, and which I was perhaps wrong in thinking that I could even imagine. After all, he was all that was left of my father and mother and Uncle Abel and Aunt Estelle.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

“Doña Visitación is a kindly woman and doesn’t believe that the working class should be slowly starved. *”
― Camilo José Cela, The Hive

“Or to put it inversely, by presuming we know the ultimate nature of reality, we limit our ability to understand.”
― William Egginton, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality