Datlow Inferno Quotes & Sayings

There is an old poor man, ... Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger. — William Shakespeare

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. — Sara Sheridan

So go, girl. We should have been one person all along, not two. — Dorothy Baker

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. — Goldwin Smith

Have a great purpose and do what you must to achieve it. — Debasish Mridha

If u can't get along with Dravid, u're struggling in life — Brett Lee

Life is easy if you let it and hard if you make it. — Juanita Lewis

[Iris] squeezed his hand. Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope. — Rick Riordan

I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute for the people who are thinking and writing on those pages. — Stephen Gaghan

She's generous as an oil baron and loyal as a pit bull. — Gayle Forman

Any mode of thought that lays out complete and final answers to great existential questions is liable to dogmatism. A great attraction of care ethics, I think, is its refusal to encode or construct a catalog of principles and rules. One who cares must meet the cared-for just as he or she is, as a whole human being with individual needs and interests. [...] At most, it directs us to attend, to listen, and to respond as positively as possible. [...] it recognizes that virtually all human beings desire not to be hurt, and this gives us something close to an absolute: We should not inflict deliberate hurt or pain. Even when we must fight to save our children, we must not inflict unnecessary or deliberate pain. — Nel Noddings

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket. — Alan Moore

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. — Antonin Scalia

How far back his treachery goes, who can guess?' said Gandalf. 'He was not always evil. Once I do not doubt that he was the friend of Rohan; and even when his heart grew colder, he found you useful still. But for long now he has plotted your ruin, wearing the mask of friendship, until he was ready. In those years Wormtongue's task was easy, and all that you did was swiftly known in Isengard; for your land was open, and strangers came and went. And ever Wormtongue's whispering was in your ears, poisoning your thought, chilling your heart, weakening your limbs, while others watched and could do nothing, for your will was in his keeping. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don't think being sad is to be avoided. It's apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that's sadistic of me. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt