“ Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. Mordecai Richler
“ Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can ma… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he… Frank Herbert
“ Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true that she had married Bob Duport. She nodded; not exactly c… Anthony Powell
“ Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal daylight of slopes illuminated in blue, she personified the spirit of the witches' sabbat. Morbi… Jean Lorrain
“ To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, me… Thomas Ligotti
“ It's so warm it's almost friendly. A friendly work of art. I've never thought such a thing in my life. And look at it. It's never sentimental. It's generous, but it's sardonic too. And whenever it's s… Ali Smith
“ Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch. Oakley Hall
