Quotes About Author

Thus the Labour Party is a 'capitalist workers' party'.

The state is a product and a manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms.

As is invariably noted at the beginning of positively all literary biographies, the little boy was a glutton for books.... For his first writing exercise he painstakingly reproduced: "Obey your sovereign, honor him and submit to his laws," and the compressed ball of his index finger thus remained ink-stained forever. Now the thirties are over and the forties have begun.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

On learning that the instigators of the uprising had been shot, she was incensed both by the fact that they had been shot at all and the fact that not enough of them had been shot.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

I want with my vote to support Henderson in the same way as the rope supports a hanged man.

I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon.

Your book is dedicated by the soundest reason. You had better get out of France as quickly as you can.

I asked him for a cigarette and he obliged, lighting it for me without a word, without meeting my eye. The quiet ones do this. They exert control by giving nothing out, and it's this blankness that makes them unpredictable, as dangerous as the loud ones are obvious.

I wondered briefly if cats also came back after death, then dismissed the thought because as far as I had ever been able to tell, cats do not have a purpose.

Sí. Este perro será el problema," Bobby replied. Senora

What happened to the Ford?" "God, Gloria made me sell it. Supposedly, I had too much independence—that's the new theory, that I ran off because of independence. Also, she wants me to see a shrink. She's convinced that anyone who wouldn't want to live with her has to be crazy.

But Walt didn't chase the car, for some reason. That was my first hint that people don't always understand how to have fun. They need dogs to show them.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall; And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

I… thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!

Isolationism has largely been a myth that really means "the United States will make unilateral decisions rather than forming meaningful alliances.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.