Documentations Quotes

#1. I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Alan Furst

#2. civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.

Anton Chekhov

#3. It doesnt matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith.

Salma Hayek

#4. Let us thank God for valour in abstraction
For those who go their own way, will not kiss
The arse of law and order nor compound
For physical comfort at the price of pride

Louis MacNeice

#5. I decided to let it go. The way I saw it,everything is temporary. Even the biggest stars die. Feelings are more temporary than most things. You just have to wait for them to pass.

Tim Lott

#6. Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

H. Rap Brown

#7. There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.

Alastair Reynolds

#8. See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.

Melina Marchetta

#9. I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

Woody Allen

#10. You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

Amy Sedaris

#11. That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with ... making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself.

L.M. Montgomery

#12. Never use two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. There was a rare quality about Nurse Grace's smile. It was the knowledge that sooner or later her smile would inspire some witty observer to say something around the lines of, "Every time you do this, an angel farts".

Sorin Suciu