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“While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.”
Source : Jeffrey Archer (2012). “The New Collected Short Stories”, p.374, Pan Macmillan
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“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.”
Source : 'Lettre du Provincial' 21 December 1899, in 'Basic Verities' (1943) p. 46
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“Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.”
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“For the artist, fulfillment of self consists not in marching in the ranks of the liberators but in being entered in the roll of the Masters. The artist tends to find himself in the position of a deserter from his social group or, at best, one who collaborates, with secret reservations.”
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“Make a little space, and get out of your own way.”
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“Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.”
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“When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.”
Source : Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“The law is above the law, you know.”
Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Little Brothers”, p.89, Open Road Media
