"No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects."

-- Piers Anthony

#Character Quotes #Aspect Quotes #Novel Quotes

“From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.”

Source : Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press
“Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.”

Source : "Looking Backward, 2000-1887". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 14, 1888.
“Shooting percentage is just as much about decision making as it is about technique”
“For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.”
“Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.”

Source : Leza Lowitz (2011). “Yoga Heart: Lines on the Six Perfections”, p.60, Stone Bridge Press
“There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe.”
“Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”

Source : Eminent Victorians preface (1918)

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