"One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again."

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Source : Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

Jonathan Raban

#Drama Quotes #Fall Quotes #Eden Quotes

“The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.”
“On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.”
“some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.”
“You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.”

Source : "Ironside: A Modern Faery's Tale". Book by Holly Black, 2007.
“In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.”
“For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“All problems are divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial and important questions which are insoluble.”
“And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter. The bruising spreading up the side of his face had halted, and under it he was very pretty. Not jock-pretty, or the hurtful kind of pretty that tells you a guy is too busy taking care of his royal self to think about you.”

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