Dave Marsland > Dave's Quotes

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“To read without joy is stupid.”
― John Williams

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Though soulmates aren't looking for you, they will find you.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“I am not, and never was, and never could have been, a brutal scoundrel.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“The law is generous. It is lawyers with their angles, hopes, dreams, wild expectations that make the law seem a rigid thing.”
― Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light

“Now – by omission – she was trying to get away with what she thought of as a whopper, and she wondered if either she or Ludo would be equal to it. He had seemed ready enough to fall in with her; had had no scruples as she herself had; had thought it all rather a lark. She had tracked him down in Harrods Banking Hall.”
― Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“There is such a powerful eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said. Words are less important, less effective than feeling. When you can sit in perfect silence with someone, you truly know how to communicate.”
― Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations