Philcox Gray Quotes & Sayings

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material. — William Zinsser

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it. — Vint Cerf

Fiction should always challenge what you believe in, and make you think hard about what it is to be a human being. — Joe Mynhardt

While Bitty's tone was pleasantly concerned, it held that unmistakable Southern belle cattiness that wouldn't escape the attention of anyone familiar with polite social warfare. Three women within hearing stepped back a pace, but made no pretense that they weren't listening to every word. After all, this is the kind of show that makes the tiresome rules of etiquette bearable. — Virginia Brown

Why must you have this map?" she asks. "Even with a map, you will never leave this Town."
She brushes away the bread crumbs that have fallen on her lap and looks toward the Pool.
"Do you want to leave here?" she asks again.
I shake my head. Do I mean this as a "no", or is it only that I do not know?
"I just want to find out about the Town," I say. "The lay of the land, the history, the people, ... I want to know who made the rules, what has sway over us. I want even to know what lies beyond."
She slowly rolls her head, then fixes upon my eyes. "There is no beyond," she says. "Did you not know? We are at the End of the World. We are here forever. — Haruki Murakami

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals. — Lu Xun

Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway. — Martin Scorsese

Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it - all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory. — Sigmund Freud

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. — Thomas Jefferson