Eileen Fireman > Eileen's Quotes

“Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature”
― Anita Brookner, A Start in Life

“Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.”
― Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac

“Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. ”
― Charles Willeford

“Nothing human surprises me.”
― Charles Willeford

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“On the whole it’s not wise to remind the devil that he’s the devil, especially when we were getting on so well.”
― Philip Kerr, The Lady from Zagreb

“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.”
― Richard Ford, The Sportswriter

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes

“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background

“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
― Iain M. Banks

“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”
― V.S. Naipaul