A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930 Scottish born writer.
One sometimes sees more clearly in the man who lies than in the man who tells the truth. Truth, like the light, blinds. Lying, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight, which gives to each object its value. Albert Camus 1913-1960 French writer.
A novel is a mirror which passes over a motorway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road. Stendhal 1783-1842 French novelist.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 Irish dramatist.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. Samuel Johnson 1709-84 English lexicographer.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-44 French novelist.
