Pamela Dean famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.
-- Pamela Dean

#Alcohol #Literature #May
Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?
-- Pamela Dean

#Art #Years #Giving
Why do all your friends talk like books?
-- Pamela Dean

#Book

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
Alright, remember, alcohol equals puke equals smelly mess equals nobody likes you.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Please all, and you will please none.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

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