MF > MF's Quotes

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

“I hadn’t watched any of the Olympics, apart from the evening we arrived in St Petersburg. I figured why watch it, I’m doing it.”
― Mel Cormican, To St Petersburg With Love

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“There is nothing as convincing as conviction”
― Mel Cormican, To St Petersburg With Love

“A door loses its meaning if you don’t ever go through it. It becomes a wall.”
― Paul Pen, The Light of the Fireflies

“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...”
― John Lennon

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood