“The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“...throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You have paid for your passion in humiliation, mutilation, and sometimes even - as when Henry VIII burned Bible translator William Tyndale as a heretic - immolation. I salute you all, as do my fellow books.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“...one day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
“You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.”
― James K. Morrow, quote from The Last Witchfinder
James K. Morrow
Born place: in Philadelphia, The United States
Born date March 17, 1947
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“A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
― Henry Adams, quote from The Education of Henry Adams
“Die älteste Sprache, sagt man, sei das Indogermanische, Indo-europäische, das Sanskrit. Aber es ist so gut wie gewiß, daß das ein "Ur" ist, so vorschnell wie manches andere, und daß es eine wieder ältere Muttersprache gegeben hat, welche die Wurzeln der arischen sowohl wie auch der semitischen und chamitischen Mundarten in sich beschloß. Wahrscheinlich ist sie auf Atlantis gesprochen worden, dessen Silhouette die letzte im Fernendunst undeutlich noch sichtbare Vorbirgskulisse der Vergangenheit bildet, das aber selbst wohl kaum die Ur-Heimat des sprechenden Menschen ist.”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Joseph and His Brothers
“You only get married the first time once.” There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence”
― Carrie Vaughn, quote from Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
“There have been so many misunderstandings in the past. What you did, often, was done for good reason. I know I am simple. I know you are devious. But, oh God, if there is any good reason for what you are doing now; any excuse; any unknown factor or subtle circumstance you are afraid I can’t grasp, for the mercy of God, this time, tell me.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Ringed Castle
“Language supplies us with ways to express ever subtler levels of meaning, but does that imply language gives meaning, or robs us of it when we are at a loss to name things?”
― Lucy Grealy, quote from Autobiography of a Face
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