“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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“As illustrated in any number of footnotes, men are almost always 50 to 60 percent dumber in matters involving their crotch.”
― Scott Hawkins, quote from The Library at Mount Char
“Kind of. Just—we don’t know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we’re spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that’s dead isn’t crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?”
― Heather Demetrios, quote from I'll Meet You There
“O exhilaration, I thought. To be lifted up through the eye of chaos, to balance breath-stopped on the edge of nothing. And the plunge that would follow, the shattering of my matchstick body to smithereens, the bones flying free as foam, the heart finally released.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, quote from The Mistress of Spices
“Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonQuest
“when children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing?”
― Donna Leon, quote from Death at La Fenice
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