“ What immense satisfaction it must be to fashion a story like [Maupassant's]! One must say 'fashion' because it is not merely writing, but massing and cutting away like a sculptor, chiseling lean and c… Patricia Highsmith
“ A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves. Elizabeth George
“ There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of… George MacDonald
