Dehghani Tafti Quotes & Sayings

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. — Salman Rushdie

So thick with cobwebs it seemed like skeletons had decorated for a party. Raven fought her way through the webs to the far wall and ripped the velvet cloth off the mirror. She saw her own reflection staring back - long black hair with purple highlights, dark eyebrows, — Shannon Hale

Thanks for agreeing to watch Fat Rabbit. Hope you're prepared for lots of farts in your future. From the dog, of course. — Karina Halle

Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love. — Debasish Mridha

Jesus. Why'd you do that?" "That motherfucker slapped me!" "And you just kill him?" "You never motherfuckin' hit a woman!" "How could he have missed you dedication of feminine virtue, especially when you keep saying motherfucker? — Tim Dorsey

He was forced into war by a misunderstanding - and always claimed he was no warrior - yet he came to fight as well as any man. — Brandon Sanderson

What we deem insignificant may bear light to the whole world. — Benjamin Blech

There is a price we pay for being attached to a narrow view of being right. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite. — G.K. Chesterton

Economic transactions between national bodies who are at the same time the supreme judges of their own behavior, who bow to no superior law, and whose representatives cannot be bound by any considerations but the immediate interest of their respective nations, must end in clashes of power. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti. — Mark Helprin