"After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo."

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Source : "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

Arthur Smith

#Memories Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes #Phrases Quotes

“No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.”

Source : Robert Briffault (1930). “Rational Evolution: (the Making of Humanity)”
“She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.”
“It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one.”
“Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.”
“I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.”
“Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.”
“Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.”
“Art without knowledge is nothing!”

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