Stephen Register > Stephen's Quotes

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.”
― Bertolt Brecht

“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them; frailty and madness, wickedness and saintliness, and the insanity of gambling were there to know as you knew the landscape and the roads in turgenev”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast