T.H. White · 823 pages
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“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
“Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
“If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
“You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
“Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
“I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
“Merlin: "Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit lately, I notice, of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. I trust we are free of this?"
Arthur: "Everybody knows that children are more intelligent than their parents."
Merlin: "You and I know it, but the people who are going to read this book do not.
Our readers of that time (...) have exactly three ideas in their magnificent noodles. The first is that the human species is superior to others. The second, that the twentieth century is superior to other centuries. And the third, that human adults of the twentieth century are superior to their young. (...)”
― T.H. White, quote from The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-5)
T.H. White
Born place: in Bombay, India
Born date May 29, 1906
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“Not everything can be told in words, certain things it's better never to tell.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Adolescent
“Make wise choices with your life because the rest of the world certainly isn't going to do it for you.”
― Jessica Brody, quote from My Life Undecided
“The universe was infinite, and there were most likely an infinite number of universes. To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.”
― Douglas E. Richards, quote from Wired
“And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?”
― William Blake, quote from The Complete Illuminated Books
“Było coś nieprawdopodobnego w fakcie, że już za progiem – po wypisaniu ze szpitala – więzień stawał się na powrót więźniem, ale jak długo leżał bez ruchu w łóżku szpitalnym, przysługiwały mu wszystkie prawa człowieczeństwa z wyjątkiem wolności.”
― Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, quote from A World Apart
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