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No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature


Robert Louis Stevenson

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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.
JOHN GAY Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the...
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DALE SHULL TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
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GEORGE PIERCE BAKER Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us towar...
JAMES WOOD The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
ROBERT PINSKY Can I ever envision a time when there is no MCA Bonspiel? No. But I can see the possibility of, at s...
IAN STANILOFF At that time, Robert comes back in, and Robert is standing in front of me, and he wants his money.
EDWARD KARABACK I believe in people. I feel, love, need and respect people above all else, including natural scenery...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN To me it makes the timing of what he's done and the manner in which he's done it highly suspect.
JAMES COBB "You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!" --Louis to Lesta...
ANNE RICE My mother said I should have a 'change of scenery.' The word scenery made be think of a play. And as...
DAVID LEVITHAN We really didn't hear too much from him. At first, that worried me. I thought he might have died. Ev...
KATHY TOPP You burnt my little house, didn't you?"--Louis to Lestat "Can you blame me?" "Besides, I was human w...
ANNE RICE That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever gi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Ste...
MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget...
ADRIENNE CLARKSON A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... It was a change of scenery for me. I felt like I had spent so much time running on trails that I wan...
DESBAH YAZZIE The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic visi...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant comp...
JIM BUTCHER It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me alwa...
ENRICO CARUSO To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sig...
ITALO CALVINO It's always been senseless to me that we have enormous legal libraries and folks who spend way too m...
RICHARD LYLES Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unex...
DAVE EGGERS There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel t...
KURT COBAIN I'm more of a visual, hands-on type of person, and that makes this more interesting and easier for m...
CRAIG SMITH It's only 20 minutes for my wife to drive me here rather than the two hours or more to go to St. Lou...
LEONARD WOOD We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
T.S. ELIOT Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they...
DAVID EDDINGS I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Tay...
ROBERT STACK We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUD Some fish get caught for biting and some fish just get caught for being in the wrong part of the pon...
CLARE VANDERPOOL It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had peo...
CY ALEXANDER It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The first two times we met he didn't hurt me too much. I think he's gotten stronger since the last t...
CRAIG WEBER I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately f...
TANYA TUCKER I want to be near the ocean, Lincoln, the ocean! I want to feel the tides. And i want mountains, too...
RAINBOW ROWELL You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt...
JOHN WATERS Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that,...
DAN CASTELLANETA It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose th...
ROBERT LECKIE In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi,...
PAUL ROBESON The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
KHALIL GIBRAN The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
KAHLIL GIBRAN There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Too much time has gone by and even now we seem to focus more on addressing a possible pandemic which...
JACQUES DIOUF There is no other media event in which we can reach so many beer drinkers at one time, which makes t...
BOB LACHKY I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis u...
DALE T. MORTENSEN Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
IRVING THALBERG When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your bac...
ROBERT JORDAN I spoke to a lot of parents that were crying when they called not knowing if their kids were safe. T...
DEBBIE SZPANKA Being transgender, like being gay, tall, short, white, black, male, or female, is another part of th...
LINDA THOMPSON The victim was set on fire in his bed inside his room. There were three other people, one being the ...
KATHY COLLINS Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and min...
DENIS WAITLEY For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
THOMAS CARLYLE If you want to strike, strike now. No matter how skillfully a footballer strikes beyond the 90 minut...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's really quite an eerie sound to hear the Earth ripping apart like that. We hear it on smaller ea...
MAYA TOLSTOY It's easy for him to say that too much was being made of it because he doesn't have to defend it. Th...
GLEN MASON Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that inter...
DAMON GALGUT Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes,...
SHIRLEY JACKSON [L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minute...
SHIRLEY JACKSON Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of b...
INGRID NEWKIRK It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished pow...
BARBARA CASTLE On occasion, I hear a rearrangement of a song that really makes me reevaluate it in a way.
TODD RUNDGREN What made Guantanamo such a travesty - and what still makes it such - is that it is a system of inde...
GLENN GREENWALD Surely, anyway, a working day of eight or nine hours which is not split by a nap is simply too much ...
TOM HODGKINSON Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its ow...
PAUL DE MAN I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two eleme...
KYLE HILL Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no mat...
JOAN D. VINGE There's nothing makes me so much grieve, As that abominable tittle-tattle, Which is the cud es...
UNKNOWN We were really looking for a fresh sound, and I think you can hear that with the use of electronics ...
ELVIS COSTELLO Everything under heaven is a sacred vessel and cannot be controlled. Trying to control leads to ruin...
LAO TZU Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.
Little did the...
JORGE LUIS BORGES It was great being a part of it, we were really choked up at halftime when Ruthie spoke. She's meant...
YOLANDA GRIFFITH Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform thi...
C.G. JUNG Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform thi...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
TRAVIS BARKER For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or...
PETER FINCH That kind of thing makes me feel better. You're out with people, in beautiful scenery, and you've ea...
CINDY CHUPACK That kind of thing makes me feel better, ... You're out with people in beautiful scenery, and you've...
CINDY CHUPACK Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's wi...
LAUREN OLIVER It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evapor...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indis...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Love- what is love?
A great and aching heart;
Wrung hands;
and silence;
and a lo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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