Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. Votes: 12
I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate. Votes: 4
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. Votes: 0
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. Votes: 0
No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony. Votes: 0
Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way. Votes: 0
Lennie begged, "Le's do it now. Le's get that place now." "Sure right now. I gotta. We gotta. Votes: 0
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. Votes: 0
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping Votes: 0
She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it. Votes: 0
Courage and fear were one thing too. Votes: 0
ad astra per alia porci Votes: 0
And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. Votes: 0
The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability. Votes: 0
To be alive at all is to have scars. Votes: 0
I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. Votes: 0
Only mediocrity escapes criticism. Votes: 0
It is the hour of pearl"the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself. Votes: 0
There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. Votes: 0
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. Votes: 0
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them. Votes: 0
You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory. Votes: 0
And her joy was nearly like sorrow. Votes: 0
And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living. Votes: 0
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog. Votes: 0
The human is the only guilty animal. Votes: 0
There is comfort in routine. Votes: 0
Saints can spring from any soil. Votes: 0
What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge. Votes: 0
But a man needs company. Votes: 0
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane. Votes: 0
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Votes: 0
He never forgot anything but he never bothered to arrange his memories. -Hazel, Cannery Row Votes: 0
But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and more precious. Votes: 0
In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. Votes: 0
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. Votes: 0
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. Votes: 0
You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous. Votes: 0
All we got is the family unbroke. Votes: 0
No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us. Votes: 0
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women. Votes: 0
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts. Votes: 0
There is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter. Votes: 0
The power of an attitude is amazing Votes: 0
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him. Votes: 0
For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear. Votes: 0
A dog is a bond between strangers. Votes: 0
You can't slice up morals. Votes: 0
Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys? Votes: 0
Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt. Votes: 0
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue. Votes: 0
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not. Votes: 0
A fallow field is a sin. Votes: 0
Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all. Votes: 0
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. Votes: 0
Oh, the strawberries don't taste as they used to and the thighs of women have lost their clutch! Votes: 0
Thou mayest rule over sin. Votes: 0
I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it. Votes: 0
The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant Votes: 0
It don't cost money to ask. Votes: 0
Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also. Votes: 0
If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Votes: 0
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong. Votes: 0
I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. Votes: 0
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. Votes: 0