Lanneret Quotes & Sayings

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. — Charles Caleb Colton

The industrial towns of the North are ugly because they happen to have been built at a time when modern methods of steel-construction and smoke-abatement were unknown, and when everyone was too busy making money to think about anything else. ...But since the war, industry has tended to shift southward and in doing so has grown almost comely. The typical post-war factory is not a gaunt barrack or an awful chaos of blackness and belching chimneys; it is a glittering white structure of concrete, glass and steel, surrounded by green lawns and beds of tulips. ...As Mr Aldous Huxley has truly remarked, a dark Satanic mill ought to look like a dark Satanic mill and not like the temple of mysterious and splendid gods. — George Orwell

We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other. — Don Winslow

In the spring I'd shit with the door open, watching the blackbirds — William H Gass

The American Army has supplied, assigned a very capable man to me, to help me, bring me to military justice. I don't think I need no civilians. All I want to do is clear myself with the American Army. — Robert Jenkins