"At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of knowing the world."

-- Charles Baxter

#Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.”
“The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.”
“Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1968). “Venetian and North Italian Schools”
“I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. .”
“The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body”
“While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.”
“Lots of the time, we just think of the Bible as history or life lessons or poetry or - unfortunately - a collection of 'thou shall' and 'thou shalt nots!' All those elements are part of Scripture.”
“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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