Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.

Jane Eyre

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen's Letters

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

To Kill a Mockingbird

the crescent sun is high, the moon low; life is not for the faint-hearted; so why the fuck should art be?

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Let me remember you, soon will the winter be on us, Snow-hushed and heartless.

Rivers to the Sea

Christianity is a religion. Not a political ideology.

Shogun Volume 1

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

The Sorrows of an American

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

Spoon River Anthology

The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

A Scanner Darkly

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

The Sense of an Ending

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

The Selfish Gene

something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil...

So Far from God

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Ale, man, Ale's the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.

A Shropshire Lad

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

Stranger in a Strange Land

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The Nicomachean Ethics

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

The Naming

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

The Naming

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff.

The Naming