S.L. Figuhr > S.L.'s Quotes

“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.”
― James Herriot, James Herriot's Cat Stories

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”
― Geoffrey Wolff

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.”
― Edith Sitwell

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
― H.L. Mencken