Cramond Tide Quotes & Sayings

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. — Hannah Arendt

The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to fully define, but I always recognise it when I see it: it is different from honesty and more resilient than fact, something that exists not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind that shows. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. — Confucius

Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence. — Samuel Beckett

One begins to wonder if all the most interesting problems in physics are now in biology. — Nick Lane

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it. — Bob Dylan

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — Carlos Fuentes

The thing I like about Bush is I think he hates liberals. — Ann Coulter

He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill. — Barbara Wood