Vendler Verb Quotes & Sayings

Some within the government and some former revolutionaries had finally realized that there was no way the Islamic regime could make us intellectuals vanish. In forcing us underground, it had also made us more appealing, more dangerous and, in a strange way, more powerful. It had made us scarce and, because of this, also in demand. — Azar Nafisi

I hate to see great works of literature ghettoized, whereas others that conform to the rules, conventions, and procedures of the genre we call literary fiction get accorded greater esteem and privilege. I also have a problem with how books are marketed, with certain cover designs and typefaces. They're often stamped with an identity that has nothing to do with their effect on the reader. — Michael Chabon

I don't know why I bother arguing with anybody sometimes, it never changes a damn thing. — John Gordon Morrison

God has always been hard on the poor. — Jean-Paul Marat

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. — Suzanne Collins