Quotes About Picaresque Novels

#1. In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

John Searle

#2. On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Thicke

#3. Only a fool would attack us.

Vyacheslav Molotov

#4. The girl who cried,
The friend who tried,
The boy who died.

John Green

#5. When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. Often, the stories are very much like trust falls. You fall, and you hope the story's going to catch you.

Etgar Keret

#7. On a warm spring day, a galloping horse was only too clearly a sweating animal of flesh and blood. But a horse racing through a snowstorm became one with the very elements; wrapped in the whirling blast of the north wind, the beast embodied the icy breath of winter.

Yukio Mishima

#8. Any serious reading of the Bible means personal involvement in it, not symbol mental agreement with abstract propositions. And involvement is dangerous, because it leaves one open to unforeseen conclusions.

Megan McKenna

#9. I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.

Malala Yousafzai

#10. The world is looking to us for leadership. We have provided it in the past; the main reason why anti-American feelings are so strong in the world today is that we are not providing it in the present.

George Soros