"Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off."

-- W. H. Auden

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics
“I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.”
“I always want to make sure that I am wearing what I love. What makes you feel good. And you're not wearing for anyone else but yourself.”
“do you have to sit so close?" she asked on a ragged breath. "Yes." was his only reply. "want to tell me why?" "no." (Darius replied) "i don't like it." She insisted scooting from him for the second time. He moved closer "want to tell me why?" he parroted. "No" she parroted right back.”
“I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.”
“People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it.”
“Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.”
“Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.”

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