Quotes About Author

The world is mediocre," Jed finally said. "And the person who committed this murder has increased the mediocrity in this world.

That old queer Nietzsche had it right: Christianity was, at the end of the day, a feminine religion.

In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.

De même, un livre qu'on aime, c'est avant tout un livre dont on aime l'auteur, qu'on a envie de retrouver, avec lequel on a envie de passer ses journées.

In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later.

Seule la littérature peut vous permettre d'entrer en contact avec l'esprit d'un mort, de manière plus directe, plus complète et plus profonde que ne le ferait même la conversation avec un ami

For my part, I had no objection to sex being subject to market forces.

According to him, then, I seem to be on the way to becoming an imbecile. It's a theory.

mais un auteur c'est avant tout un être humain, présent dans ses livres, qu'il écrive très bien ou très mal en définitive importe peu, l'essentiel est qu'il écrive et qu'il soit, effectivement, présent dans ses livres

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him

only literature can give you access to a spirit from beyond the grave – a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend'.

Schopenhauer's work is a school of morality which instils into the reader the qualities of honesty, serenity and constancy which characterize its author; it is also, according to Nietzsche, a lesson in style (because morality and style are two sides of the same coin):

De todos los sistemas económicos y sociales el capitalismo es, sin duda, el más natural. Eso ya basta para indicar que es el peor.

Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away

Freud debería haber optado al premio Nobel, pero de Literatura

Or si le "pirate" lèse matériellement l'auteur, moralement il lui donne la plus belle des couronnes.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If such a gift I truly have been given And yet, divided, torn, still burn and stray He is to blame who fashioned me for fire.

using the same logic it uses to determine racist and other extremist groups: the FRC promotes defamation and promulgates known falsehoods.

i never thought of it before, but with your height and build, you are going to look SO CUTE in your straitjacket.

Oh well, it's over for you. Call the code at 2:03 p.m." My eyes widened in shock. "That's what they say when someone dies." "Exactly." He nodded. "Woman have fallen in love with me after staring like that for only thirty seconds and I think you just took a full minute. You're doomed.

I could go into some detail about the theological and class differences between the two groups but suffice it to say that Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian and P. T. Barnum a Universalist.

She'd be different," Belinda said. "She's a little intimidating," I said. "Like a strict teacher that you learn to adore." "Exactly," said Belinda. "Like you," I said. "Intimidating for years, and then beloved.

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.