MY FAVOURITE QUOTES FROM LITERATURE
On reading:
"A reader lives a thousand lives before dying. The one who has never read lives only one."
Jojen Reed (by George R.R. Martin)
On waiting:
"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
Iago (by William Shakespeare)
On phobias:
"A phobia is a silliness you can’t control and it is a very frightening thing to have."
Eva Ibbotson
On casuality:
"No one can escape being blown about by the winds of change and chance."
Jethro (High Priest of Midian)
On first impressions:
“I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
Lemony Snicket
On how to commence a story:
"All right, let us begin; and when we have reached the end of our story, we shall know so much more than we already know!"
H.C. Andersen
On altered states:
"The best of life is but intoxication."
Lord Byron
On translation:
"Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence; only in the imperfection of translation can art and thought truly manifest."
George Steiner
