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John Wijngaards
John Wijngaards

John Wijngaards, born on September 30, 1935, is a renowned author whose works span various genres, known for their profound insights and unique narrative style. more

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“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. His face was arresting, sensitive, medieval in some strange inexplicable way, and I was reminded of a portrait seen in a gallery I had forgotten where, of a certain Gentleman Unknown. Could one but rob him of his English tweeds, and put him in black, with lace at his throat and wrists, he would stare down at us in our new world from a long distant past—a past where men walked cloaked at night, and stood in the shadow of old doorways, a past of narrow stairways and dim dungeons, a past of whispers in the dark, of shimmering rapier blades, of silent, exquisite courtesy.”

“People say success is a science and there are laws for success, like a science. That is the most unscientific thing to ever say. If something cannot be regularly replicated under similar conditions, it’s far from a science, unless we are talking about quantum physics, which is clearly not what the “success is a science” people are referring to!”