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Literary Scenery V

Follow-up to Literary Scenery IV from Lahari's

From Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ 100 years of solitude:

”’The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’ That was the last thing he was heard to say.”

: 09 May 2008 16:57 |  Tags: Quotes |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

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) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

The elusive lotus

Follow-up to Literary Scenery III from Lahari's

From Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner:

"My men went on and presently met the Lotus-Eaters, nor did these Lotus-Eaters have any thoughts of destroying  our companions, but they only gave them lotus to taste of.  But any of them who ate the honey-sweet fruit of lotus was unwilling to take any message back, or to go away, but they wanted to stay there with the lotus-eating people, feeding on lotus, and forget the way home."

: 12 Jan 2007 16:42 |  Tags: Quotes |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Literary Scenery III

Follow-up to Literary Scenery II from Lahari's

From Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s daughter:

“At sea, at sea; to circumnavigate is to end up no farther than you started.”

: 26 May 2006 11:25 |  Tags: Quotes |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Literary Scenery II

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From Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist:

“Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.”

: 23 Feb 2006 12:59 |  Tags: Quotes |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem