Sultantepe Mahallesi Quotes & Sayings

I judged about a zillion awards this year so I've been reading a lot of books that just came out. — Rick Moody

When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing. — Sarah Parcak

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning. — George Orwell

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up. — Ben Schott

And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. — Homer

Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be relieved by prayer — William Shakespeare

In favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life. — Harper Lee