Literary Scenery IV

Follow-up to The elusive lotus from Lahari's

From David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas:

• “The better the organized the state, the duller its humanity.”

• ”... for though the humanity’s topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower – for want of discipline.”

• “I said something about reading not being true knowledge, that true knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance.”

: 24 Nov 2007 13:41 |  Tags: Quotes |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem