“If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.” IfsThinkingFirstsI CanSeriesVariousNineInstanceVolume Author:Thomas Perry
“The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.” I CanUseWaterPureIntelligentPurityBubblesImaginaryVolumeThirstCrystalsTransparencyEvokeDenseQuenchLatitude Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“I can scarcely fancy myself to ask a superior to publish a volume of my verse and I own that humanly there is very little likelihood of that ever coming to pass. And to be sure if I chose to look at things on one side and not the other I could of course regret this bitterly. But there is more peace and it isthe holier lot to be unknown than to be known.” IfsLooksLittlesI CanCoursesAsksSidesKnownRegretSuperiorsFancyVersesVolumePublishLikelihood Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins