Eugenides Foundation Quotes

#1. People only make us lonelier by reminding us of God.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#3. Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#4. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

Ragnar Galt

#5. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

Walt Whitman

#6. If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The first time you find yourself having a conversation about moss stitch with a group of people who aren't desperately trying to escape you ... it's like coming home.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee