Fidencio Duran Quotes & Sayings

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art. — Julia Glass

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad. — Criss Jami

Any country that is not careful can be seized. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I hate sentences that begin with my name followed by the claim - indubitably erroneous - that the speaker knows something about me. Those kinds of sentences rank right up there with the ones that begin with You know what your problem is? That's always a doozy. Talk about a trick question. Nothing worth hearing ever follows that preface. — Karen Marie Moning

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human? — Wesley J. Smith

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods. — David Ricardo