1849 Restaurant Quotes

#1. Perfection is a polished collection of errors.

Mario Benedetti

#2. Information can be such a double-edged sword.

Jessiqua Wittman

#3. Charles Tavis knows what James Incandenza could not have cared about less: the key to the successful administration of a top-level junior tennis academy lies in cultivating a kind of reverse-Buddhism, a state of Total Worry.

David Foster Wallace

#4. Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death.

Bram Stoker

#7. When I was younger, I would eat everything.

Summer Sanders

#8. He put his hand over my left breast and held it there. "I can feel your heart. It is my heart too.." I nodded. "It is your heart, and I am very real, Ethan. I've wanted everything we've ever done together, and you own my heart now.

Raine Miller