Spaded And Jaded Quotes & Sayings

I've come to acknowledge the turd". — Karen Marie Moning

Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses, I have been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called "great books." That, for instance, Mann's asinine "Death in Venice," or Pasternak's melodramatic, vilely written "Dr. Zhivago," or Faulkner's corn-cobby chronicles can be considered "masterpieces" or at least what journalists term "great books," is to me the sort of absurd delusion as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair. My greatest masterpieces of twentieth century prose are, in this order: Joyce's "Ulysses"; Kafka's "Transformation"; Bely's "St. Petersburg," and the first half of Proust's fairy tale, "In Search of Lost Time. — Vladimir Nabokov

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary. — Agatha Christie

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. — Richard Cecil

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear. — Peter Gabriel

The universe corresponds to the nature of your song. — Michael Beckwith