"The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive."

-- Eudora Welty

#Novelists Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Alive Quotes

“The past has to inform the present”

Source : "John Turturro on "La Tregua (The Truce)"". Interview with Richard Schwartz, www.filmscouts.com. 1997.
“As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”

Source : "Caliban: A Philosophical Drama Continuing 'The Tempest' of William Shakespeare". Book by Ernest Renan (Act 2, Scene 1), 1878.
“Deeply versed in history, [John Adams] said over and over that America had no special providence, no special role in history, that Americans were no different from other peoples, that the United States was just as susceptible to viciousness and corruption as any other nation. In this regard, at least, Jefferson's vision has clearly won the day.”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.”

Source : Christina Baldwin (1991). “One to One: Self-Understanding Through Journal Writing”, p.68, M. Evans
“I think you and he need to talk. And once you do, I wonâ€™t have to worry about being jumped like a felon again.â€ Blay frowned. â€œHe and I have nothing to say to each otherâ€”â€ â€œWith all due respect, the ligature marks around my neck would suggest otherwise.”
“I've never played anybody like a cop before.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good care is taken that each state shall have its prisons . . . and other asylums; but not one building is erected nor one law enforced that would teach the people how not to contribute to these over-crowded receptacles of human misery . . . . All of our politicians are ready to deal with the effects, but not one of them is brave enough to penetrate the substratum of society and deal with the cause.”
“The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.”

Source : Joe Meno (2011). “The Great Perhaps”, p.273, Pan Macmillan

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