GG > GG's Quotes

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
― Franz Kafka

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”
― Audre Lorde

“But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance. ”
― Zadie Smith

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
― E.E. Cummings