Quote #15441
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
Quote #14140
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Quote #6747
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and...
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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than...
Quote #33605
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I...
Quote #33305
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your...
Quote #442
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to become as mediocre as possible.
Quote #79
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Quote #20021
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this...
Quote #2652
Henry James created more convincing women than Iris Murdoch put together.