Malabaricus

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”
― Bruce Chatwin

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson

“..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist. It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must be found either in action, of some immensely solid kind, on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts.”
― Henry James, Roderick Hudson