A Book of One's Own Quotes

“[Voltaire] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.”
― Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries

“You may be intellectually ecstatic or aesthetically aggrieved at the idea of a Library of Congress in a cigarette pack, but fear is not really the appropriate reaction to this imminence.”
― Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries

“[Pepys’] diary gurgles like a full stomach and jingles like a full pocket.”
― Thomas Mallon, A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries