"In true prose everything must be underlined."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Literature Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”
“He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong. But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely unavoidable. It had started on the day they'd clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever. He felt certain of this.”
“I've come to appreciate other people's talents.”
“In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.55, Transaction Publishers
“To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation”

Source : "Actors get to improvise until 'Blue in the Face'" by Sherry Dean, www.cnn.com. October 20, 1995.
“Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.”
“A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?”
“Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students”

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