I believe in religion. I don’t have any myself, but I believe other people having religion.
– David Lodge The British Museum Is Falling Down
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I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.
– Ivan Doig Sweet Thunder
Funny … how the people who can’t pray say that prayers are not answered, however much the people who can say they are.
– T. H. White The Once and Future King
Reading was as silent and solitary and private as writing.
– Colm Toibin The Master
She was too wise for anything but faith.
– Thomas Wolfe Look Homeward Angel
The sense of life’s continuity depended on trifling bodily impressions. The trivialities of daily existence were an armour for the soul.
– Joseph Conrad Under Western Eyes
“Whereas most of us, I suspect do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.”
– JULIAN BARNES The Sense of and Ending
He would devote himself, as he had pledged, to the silent art of fiction.
– Colm Toibin The Master
