Mayrand Flyer Quotes & Sayings

His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity whensoever possible with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters. — Herman Melville

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life. — Ben Gibbard

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. — Georges Bizet

Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another. — Friedrich Nietzsche