“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.” DoeSelfLeftVoiceCenturyCapacityContraryGreekTelling The TruthMiltonBedrockDostoyevskyChaucer Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books
“I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things my character has served me well it has made me. well, an eighteenth -century man of letters, though one who happens to be female and lives in twentieth-century Berkeley.” ThinkingMenWorldWellsMadeCharacterFeelingsHappensBornCenturyFemaleLettersConnectionsTwentieth CenturyInstantaneousBerkeley Author:Wendy Lesser
