Category: Quotes

The Western States are nervous under the beginning change. Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action. A half-million people moving over the country; a million more resting, ready to move; ten million more feeling the first nervousness. John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath 2 Of course he shouldn’t, but he’ll never change his…

They were obliged to have him with them,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland 0 Lo, lo, again! Bite him to death, I prithee. William Shakespeare The Tempest 0 Serena has begun to cry. I Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale 0 There is…

Sin embargo, ¡cuántas cosas estamos a punto de descubrir si la cobardía y la dejadez no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein 3 Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 3 Flowers are weak. They’re naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They think their…

In the midst of life, we are in death. And Then There Were None 373 But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said. And Then There Were None 215 I don’t know. I don’t know at all. And that’s what’s…