"Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century."

-- Coventry Patmore

#Writing Quotes #Common Quotes #Century Quotes

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.”
“My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.”
“Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.”
“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”
“Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.”
“To subvert is not the aim of literature, its value lies in discovering and revealing what is rarely known, little known, thought to be known but in fact not very well known of the truth of the human world. It would seem that truth is the unassailable and most basic quality of literature.”
“Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.”
“The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.”

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