Top 9 Palimpsest Book Quotes
#1. He knows if he kills this man he will see his face every night before he goes to sleep. That his face will become more vivid to him than his own face. If he kills the man he will be forced to wear this man's face for the rest of his life.
Glenn Haybittle
#2. People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
Ahmet Ertegun
#4. The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#5. Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#6. Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
Lucan
#7. That's the Irish all over
they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
Sean O'Casey
#8. It's like the Fouth of July in my underpants.
Adam Carolla
