“Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“Franklin Fletcher dreamed of luxury in the form of tiger-skins and beautiful women. He was prepared, at a pinch, to forgo the tiger-skins. Unfortunately the beautiful women seemed equally rare and inaccessible. At his office and at his boarding-house the girls were mere mice, or cattish, or kittenish, or had insufficiently read the advertisements.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
John Collier
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date May 3, 1901
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“She’s lived in Plato’s cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she’s been turned around to face the fire.”
― M.R. Carey, quote from The Girl With All the Gifts
“He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magician's Apprentice
“I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“Drogo s’aperçut à quel point les hommes restent toujours séparés l'un de l'autre, malgré l'affection qu'ils peuvent se porter ; il s'aperçut que, si quelqu'un souffre, sa douleur lui appartient en propre, nul ne peut l'en décharger si légèrement que ce soit ; il s'aperçut que, si quelqu'un souffre, autrui ne souffre pas pour cela, même si son amour est grand, et c'est cela qui fait la solitude de la vie.”
― Dino Buzzati, quote from The Tartar Steppe
“I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?”
― Steve Toltz, quote from A Fraction of the Whole
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