"MARG: You are so close.STEN: To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

-- Thomas Pynchon

#White Quotes #Islands Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Ignorance and confidence are constant companions”

Source : "Into the Heart of Truth". Book by John McAfee, 2001.
“The future is easy because it doesnâ€™t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.”
“What i want is for what i want to actually matter.”
“The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.”
“But we were talking about me and my problems." Sophronia looked Monique up and down gravely. "I don't think we're going to solve those in the space of one carriage ride.”
“The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.”
“Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.”

Source : F L Lucas, (2013). “The Decline And Fall Of The Romantic Ideal”, p.167, Read Books Ltd
“This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way of life in which we keep our freedom and our distance. But that means that we stop growing and shut ourselves up in our own small concerns and pleasures.”

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