"To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?"

-- Catullus

#Book Quotes #Giving Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's true whether you're reading Shakespeare or bad vampire fiction-reading is always an act of empathy. It's always an imagining of what it's like to be someone else.”
“Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.”
“The true nature of mankind comes down to a simple question: 'Do we teach children how to be good or how to be bad?'”
“For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”
“If you're not having fun, you're the asshole.”
“A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.”

Source : Fisher Ames, John Thornton Kirkland (1854). “Works of Fisher Ames: With a selection from his speeches and correspondence”, p.346, Burt Franklin
“There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.”
“Only the winners decide what were war crimes.”

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