Sam Brown > Sam's Quotes

“Encyclopedias don’t win wars.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight,the weight we carry is love. ”
― Allen Ginsberg

“One prod to the nerve of nationalism and the intellectual decencies can vanish, the past can be altered, and the plainest facts can be denied.”
― George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“Always good to have slept with at least one person on any committee on which one sits. It's the British way.”
― Tony Hawks, Once Upon A Time In The West...Country

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

“While we have driven out other Nazi verbal monstrosities, the terminology of the war on drugs has lingered. It's no longer a matter of Jews - the dangerous dealers are now said to be part of different cultural circles.”
― Norman Ohler, Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

“Post-truth is pre-fascism.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”
― Gillian Flynn, The Grownup

“This house sheltered us, we spoke, we lived within those walls. That was yesterday.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Hitler has always had the capacity to reflect whatever phobia afflicts the person who stares at him”
― Robert Harris, Selling Hitler

“Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Art, like Nature, has her monsters”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Death is the only reality, for it is the only certainty, inevitable to all things.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother

“Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture has been painted, and every story has been told. The best one can do is sing, draw, or tell it again well.”
― Evan Mandery, Q

“Even worse than the experience of horror is the denial of its existence.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun