“the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“nothing furnishes a room like books”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
“English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.”
― Terry Fallis, quote from The Best Laid Plans
Terry Fallis
Born place: in Toronto, Canada
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“And I found a statement by Hawthorne which helped to explain his method: “I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spiritual mechanism of the faery legend should be combined with the characters and manners of everyday life.”
― Peter Straub, quote from Ghost Story
“Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.”
― Scott Westerfeld, quote from Leviathan
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, quote from god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”
― Walter Isaacson, quote from Steve Jobs
“„Ne. Sveta, jesi li ikada čula za analogiju... ljubav - to je cvijet?“
„Da.“
„Cvijet se može uzgojiti. A može se i kupiti. Ili se dobije kao poklon."
„Je l’ Anton kupio?“
„Ne“, rekoh suviše oštro, po svoj prilici, jesam... „Dobio je na poklon. Od sudbine.“
„I šta s tim? Je l' to ljubav?“
„Sveta, isječeno cvijeće je lijepo. Ali nije dugovječno. Ono ipak umire, pa makar i brižljivo
spušteno u kristalnu vazu sa sviježom vodom.“
„On se boji da voli“, zamišljeno reče Svetlana. „Je l' da? Ja se nisam bojala, zato što
nisam znala ovo...”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, quote from Night Watch
Hold My Hand
Where Love Finds You
Fanny Hill, or Memoi...
The Last Werewolf
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