The soul remains anchored. It is a balloon tied to a branch of bones. Still, it will tug nobly.
– Patrick White The Tree of Man
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Quotes From a Wide Range of Authors & Books
“…it was not important how much time a man saved, but what he did with it when he had saved it. If he used it for evil purposes then it had been better he never had it.”
– IVO ANDRIC The Bridge on the Drina
There is many a person whose soul has gone to sleep like a leg.
– Vladimir Nabokov “A Busy Man” in Details of a Sunset
..but people are tenacious about life, and will go on living. It was not all of it a plot-like life: most of it was just a story – one thing after another – a chain of unnecessary accidents.
– T. H. WHITE The Once and Future King
There is no glory greater than a book….
– Carlos Fuentes The Campaign
He explained to me and made me believe that happiness had nothing to do with one’s outward circumstances; but could be created only within.
– LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS The Rector of Justin
Thoreau said a writer was a man with nothing to do who finds something to do.
– Richard Ford The Lay of the Land
“Egad! I might be married to her; she treats me with such darned indifference.”
– Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
