Maycen Jar Quotes & Sayings

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. — Naguib Mahfouz

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something? — Idries Shah

To worship is to ascribe to God things that are true about him until we actually believe that truth and live according to it. — Mark Buchanan

There is something improbably about the silence in the [subway] carriage, considering how naturally gregarious we are as a species. Still, how much kinder it is for the commuters to pretend to be absorbed in other things, rather than revealing the extent to which they are covertly evaluating, judging, condemning and desiring each other. A few venture a glance here and there, as furtively as birds pecking grain. But only if the train crashed would anyone know for sure who else had been in the carriage, what small parts of the nation's economy had been innocuously seated across the aisle just before the impact: employees of hotels, government ministries, plastic-surgery clinics, fruit nurseries and greetings-card companies. — Alain De Botton

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget! — Mary Elizabeth Coleridge