Tim Parks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map...
I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

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