John Storm Drinkwater Quotes & Sayings

You're like a witness. You're the one who goes to the museum and looks at the paintings. I mean the paintings are there and you're in the museum too, near and far away at the same time. I'm a painting. Rocamadour is a painting. Etienne is a painting, this room is a painting. You think that you're in the room but you're not. You're looking at the room, you're not in the room. — Julio Cortazar

Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the Narnian witches isn't ancillary to their evil, but integral to it, one of the weapons in their arsenal. Evil must, after all, appear attractive if it's going to be tempting, and from there it's only a small step further to the conclusion that feminine beauty is inherently wicked. — Laura Miller

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother. — John Crowley

Habits are first cobwebs, then chains.
--Spanish proverb — Jep Robertson

Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him? — William Gillette

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits. — Philip Pullman

Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean. — Georges Bataille