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F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "One thin's sure and nothing's surer. The rich get richer and..."
One thin's sure and nothing's surer. The rich get richer and the poor get? children. In the meantime, In between time... F. Scott Fitzgerald
That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent. Graham Greene
I awaited Signor Polizzi's reply with ill-contained impatience. I could not even remain quiet; I would make sudden nervous gestures - open books and violent close them again. One day I happened to upset a book with my elbow - a volume of Morri. Hamilcar, who was washing himself, suddenly stopped, and looked angrily at me, with his paw over his ear. Was this the tumultuous existence he must expect under my roof? Had there not been a tacit understanding between us that we should live a peaceful... Anatole France
Melvin Burgess quote: "If it’s a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used..."
If it’s a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I’ll choose being a bastard any time. Melvin Burgess
There was something theatrical about the protest, ingratiating even. . . . There was a shadow of transaction between the demonstrators and the state. The protest was a form of systemic hygiene, purging and lubricating. It attested again, for the ten thousandth time, to the market culture’s innovative brilliance, its ability to shape itself to its own flexible ends, absorbing everything around it. Don DeLillo
Salman Rushdie quote: "Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and..."
Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love. Salman Rushdie
After you have believed, you can enjoy salvation by feeling its heavenly influences, but to dream of getting a grasp of it by your own feelings is as foolish as to attempt to carry the sunlight in the palm of your hand or the breath of heaven between the lashes of your eyes. There is an essential absurdity in the whole affair. Charles Spurgeon
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. Neal Stephenson
There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing. Philip Stanhope
Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be... Witold Gombrowicz
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? Terry Prachett
T. S. Eliot quote: "Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is..."
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. T. S. Eliot
I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family. Jon Ronson
Julian Barnes quote: "An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always..."
An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person. Julian Barnes
Joseph Ratzinger quote: "The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place..."
The risen Lord is the new Temple, the real meeting place between God and man. Joseph Ratzinger

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