“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
“It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--”
― Richard Connell, quote from The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell
Born place: in Poughkeepsie, New York, The United States
Born date October 17, 1893
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“A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.”
― Michael David Lukas, quote from The Oracle of Stamboul
“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before.
One day when these questions were fighting in his heart, all at once it seemed as if a soundless voice in the depth of his soul replied, "Thy soul, however it became known to itself, is from the pure heart of God."
And with the thought, the horizon of his life began to clear.”
― George MacDonald, quote from The Fisherman's Lady
“...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.”
― Elise Broach, quote from Shakespeare's Secret
“Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, quote from The Vicar of Wakefield
“idea models—models that are simple enough to study via mathematics or computers but that nonetheless capture fundamental properties of natural complex systems.”
― quote from Complexity: A Guided Tour
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