"Ultimately, I want a peak experience in reading, and that is sometimes difficult to find in contemporary fiction. I'm not interested in books that are just clever and well executed; polish doesn't impress me, and I don't care about a merely capable sentence. Life is short; I want a confrontation with high art. I want soul."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

C.E. Morgan

#Art Quotes #Clever Quotes #Book Quotes

“Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.”

Source : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". IRIN Interview, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
“This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.”

Source : "Get Mad as Hell About Citizens United and Register to Vote" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.”
“My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.”

Source : "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“The family has a social function and so it should be sustained.”
“Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2016). “ROBERT E. HOWARD Ultimate Collection – 300+ Cult Classics, Adventure Novels, Western, Horror & Detective Stories, Historical Books (Including Poetry, Essays, Articles & Letters) - ALL in One Volume): Sword & Sorcery Fiction Including Complete Conan the Barbarian, Solomon Kane and Kull the Conqueror Series, as well as Weird Fiction, Fantasy Stories of the Weird West, The Cthulhu Mythos Tales and more”, p.1238, e-artnow
“<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.”
“He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.”

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