Quotes for the Depression Forums 10-20
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:09 pm
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
-- Phillip Lopate
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
-- Jules Renard
-- G. K. Chesterton
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.
-- Phillip Lopate
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
-- Jules Renard