“The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation today, next year die, and their experience with them.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“As children we accept magic as a normal part of life. Everything seems rooted in it, everything conspires in magic terms.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Walls, windows, roof, verandah–entirely commonplace, mean even–moved her with the austere poetry of their function. Here a man sheltered from and diminished the horror and vulgarity of the world by the simplicity of his arrangements for living in it.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“The world exists for the education of each man. There is no age or state of society, or mode of action in history, to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life. Everything tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its own virtue to him. He should see that he can live all history in his own person. He must sit at home with might and main, and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires, but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the governments of the world . . .”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“When he got to the shoe putting-on stage he called Hosain again. Putting on and taking off his own shoes and boots were activities at which he drew the line if there was a man available to perform these services. He had learned to draw the line in Muzzafirabad where his first CO, Colonel Gawstone, advised him never to stoop if he could help it. The climate wasn't right for it. Mrs. Gawstone had stooped to pick up a glove and keeled right over and never got up. They had buried her the next day.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
Paul Scott
Born place: in Southgate, London, The United Kingdom
Born date March 25, 1920
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“Jason felt humiliated and frustrated. Rejected by a rock.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, quote from The Dragon Heir
“This isn’t life. It’s something that’s playing out in its own self-contained subroutine.”
― M.R. Carey, quote from The Girl With All the Gifts
“Our army is retreating. The Sachakans are following. They will be here soon. We must be ready. The servants are bringing horses.” He paused and frowned at one of the apprentices. “Stop wating time asking stupid questions and see if your horse is here!” he snapped. He turned and pointed. “You! Arelenin. I can see someone bringing your horse. Yes, I’d hardly miss that ugly beast if it were on the other side of the country. Go and get it.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magician's Apprentice
“...and time becomes a forgotten detail.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“كانت تنهشهما الحيرة في هذه الليلة اللانهائية، وهما دروغو وترونك مستندان الى الحاجز وقد سمّرا أعينهما نحو العمق، هناك حيث يبدأ سهل التتار، على حين بدت البقعة الغامضة ثابتة في مكانها كأنها تغفو مضطجعة، ثم رويداً رويداً أخذ يتملك دروغو شعور أن هذا مجرد لا شيء. إنه مجرد جلمود يشبه راهبة، وأن عينيه مخدوعتان، إنه مجرد تعب، وهمٌ أخرق. ها هي ذي ظلال مرارة كثيفة تلامسه. بالضبط كما يحدث عندما تمرّ بنا ساعات القدر دون أن تمسنا، ومن ثم يضيع صخبها بعيداً عنّا، على حين نبقى نحن وحيدين، تائهين في لجة بعض الأوراق اليابسة، نجتر حسرة تلك الفرصة الضائعة”
― Dino Buzzati, quote from The Tartar Steppe
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