Mallardis Weston Quotes & Sayings

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to is not any pleasure of these things, but the exhilaration of standing apart from them and being able to see them for what they are because they aren't really happening. The more exposed we are to this, the less likely we are to find an unthinking pleasure in cruel or evil things. As the eighteenth century said in a fine mouth-filling phrase, literature refines our sensibilities. — Northrop Frye

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver. — Jacqueline Wilson

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost. — Socrates

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it. — Tucker Carlson

Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. — David Mitchell

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now. — James Purdy

But then, to those behind the First Order, sowing fear and terror was merely politics by another means. — Alan Dean Foster

None of us-teacher or taught-realised how an imagined romantic life can sustain a possibility, a hope, and remain like that. Like parallel train tracks, it runs alongside, but will never meet, the life you're are living. — Anna Funder

We should not judge our books by their covers, and that some books exist between covers that are perfectly people-shaped.) — Ray Bradbury

He leaned over and inhaled the pillow Gray had been on. Sick freak. She ought to suffocate him with it the moment he fell asleep. But Nolan lay there with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling. Murder's — Nikki Jefford

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton