Mark Beauregard Quotes

#1. There is mystery in everything," Herman whispered, almost to himself. "And so there is poetry in everything. Even something as monstrous as a whale. But how to unlock its poetry. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#2. Asking the question matters more than finding the answer. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#3. He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#4. He seemed not to need mere physical sustenance anymore, surviving instead on a spiritual alchemy of memory and desire. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#5. Must we submit eternally to male tyranny? - Author: Mark Beauregard

#6. New books feel special," said Hawthorne. "They're like babies born into the skin of old men. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#7. Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#8. Original sin is a very commercial idea," said Duyckinck. "How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year? - Author: Mark Beauregard

#9. For the first time in as long as he could remember, a finger of light, like the first ray of dawn, shone into the dark cavern of his soul. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#10. One sometimes must sail with the wind and sometimes against it, but the important thing is to keep your sails full. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#11. Maria said, "Penmanship is no laughing matter, Miss Field. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#12. I have negotiated with cannibals in foreign tongues and Arabian sea captains and French criminals. I have bartered with demons and angels! I am not about to let a country doctor take advantage of me. - Author: Mark Beauregard

#13. Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs. - Author: Mark Beauregard