Jeremy Shearmur famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
A zebra does not change its spots.
One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.
The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.
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.
You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.'

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