Matthew Pearl famous quotes

04-17-2025

I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Faithful #Association #Admiration
Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Book #Talking #Long
Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Funny #People #Eternity
With James Reeseâ€™s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for historyâ€™s most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Appreciation #Strong #Character
Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Drinking #Men #Said
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is trueâ€”without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
-- Matthew Pearl

#Lying #Book #Light
He was outwardly calm but inwardly bleeding to death.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Bleeding #Calm
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Dissection
Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Two #Remember #Cry
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
-- Matthew Pearl

#Real #Book #Literature

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