The Forgers Quotes

“If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation.”
― Bradford Morrow, The Forgers

“There is a bookseller out there for every bibliophilic obsession known to humankind. You want a seventeenth-century book on microscopy with engraved illustrations on the life cycle of mosquitoes? There is a dealer who can provide you with that. You fancy rare volumes on Antarctic exploration or the history of ancient Egyptians?”
― Bradford Morrow, The Forgers

“quoting Tacitus’s epigram “Omne ignotum pro magnifico”—everything unknown is wonderful”
― Bradford Morrow, The Forgers

“History is subjective. History is alterable. History is, finally, little more than modeling clay in a very warm room.”
― Bradford Morrow, The Forgers

“Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won’t live forever, they make us feel as if we might.”
― Bradford Morrow, The Forgers

“After a second pint, I entered a pocket of time in which life seemed good, secure, not threatened by the past or “things to come.” I knew I had been living on a kind of sine curve, a rolling wave of ups and downs, now hopeful now doomed, now asleep now insomniac, now cocksure now deeply uncertain. If such a roller coaster of moods and dispositions had taken its toll on me, I thought, imagine what it must have been like for”
― Bradford Morrow, The Forgers