"The writer is all alone."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#All Alone Quotes

“It is a world of startling possibilities.”

Source : Charles Fletcher Dole (1906). “The Hope of Immortality: Our Reasons for it”
“Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.”

Source : Diana Rowland (2012). “Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five”, p.16, Penguin
“Compliments are only lies in court clothes.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.579
“Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.”
“Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.”
“Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.”
“You cannot do justice to the dead. When we talk about doing justice to the dead we are talking about retribution for the harm done to them. But retribution and justice are two different things.”
“Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (1966). “A Maritain Reader: Selected Writings”

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