Famous Fenian Quotes & Sayings

But the whole idea of the transformation ... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic. — Robert Barnes

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there — Alanis Morissette

No mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine the finest characters. They teach us to think ourselves into other men's places. Thus we acquire a taste for change. The personality becomes dissolved in pleasing figments of imagination. The reader learns to understand every point of view. Willingly he yields himself to the pursuit of other people's goals and loses sight of his own. Novels are so many wedges which the novelist, an actor with his pen, inserts into the closed personality of the reader. The better he calculates the size of the wedge and the strength of the resistance, so much the more completely does he crack open the personality of the victim. Novels should be prohibited by the State. — Elias Canetti

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

If an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect. — Anna Letitia Barbauld

Don't cater to stupidity. — Christine Feehan