"There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus."

-- China Mieville

#Death Quotes #Doors Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Great questions make great reporting.”
“Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.”
“People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. â€”Elana”
“I have spent a good many years sinceâ€•too many, I thinkâ€•being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
“Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.
“There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.”
“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
“Anything I've ever read by John Irving has been really well written.”

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