John > John's Quotes

“Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library. Then , when Robinson goes to the bookseller in Philadelphia let him start with the first of each of our chooses, then the second of each, and so on down, omitting duplicates, of course. Let him go as far as his money lasts. How does that sound."
"Vandaliz has a library," Fell said, "and so has Springfield and Edwardsville. why not Everton.”
― Harold Sinclair, American Years

“Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part of it-a dream which was about one quarter hope and three quarters bitter disillusionment.”
― Harold Sinclair, American Years

“Mother Nature," he murdered half aloud and grinned, "we think of her as a benevolent old lady. Maybe instead she's the wantonest kind of whore.”
― Harold Sinclair, American Years