Fandorin Book Quotes & Sayings

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard

It's yad that propels us, like a motor, onward. Yad is like envy, but it's not simply that. It's like spite, rage, anger, but more elegant, more complicated. It's like pity for someone, regret for something you did or did not do, for a chance you missed, for an opportunity you squandered. — Miroslav Penkov

No one could ride a horse if the horse discovered its real strength. The same thing is true for people. — Napoleon Hill

Any Israeli attack on Lebanon, Iran, Syria or Gaza will be met with a fierce response. — Hassan Nasrallah

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal. — Julia Child

Love is a battlefield. — Pat Benatar

A liar lies to others. A fool lies to herself. — Sable Grace

There may come a day
Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth! — Bayard Taylor

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay. — Rose George

There is no way to stop. Writers go on writing long after it becomes financially unnecessary ... because it hurts less to write than it does not to write. — Robert A. Heinlein

In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about. — Doris Lessing

To err is human. To admit it, a blunder. — Various

The more things I threw away, the more I found. — Don DeLillo

The things that come to light brutally in insanity remain hidden in the background in neurosis, but they continue to influence consciousness nonetheless. When, therefore, the analysis penetrates the background of conscious phenomena, it discovers the same archetypal figures that activate the deliriums of psychotics. — C. G. Jung

Am well. Thinking of you always. Love — Albert Camus