Chuck

“When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Indian Tales

“History was an artist, maintaining the idea but changing the details, like a composer keeping the same theme but dulling it to a minor or lifting by an octave, now crooning it with violins, now blaring it on trumpets.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

“Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills