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Eleanor found herself unexpectedly admiring her own feet. Theodora dreamed over the fire beyond the tips of her toes, and Eleanor thought with deep satisfaction that her feet were handsome in their red sandals; what a complete and separate thing I am, she thought, going from my red toes to the top of my head, individually an I, possessed of attributes belonging only to me. I have red shoes, she thought-that goes with being Eleanor; I dislike lobster and sleep on my left side and crack my knuckles when I am nervous and save buttons. I am holding a brandy glass which is mine because I am here and I am using it and I have a place in this room. I have red shoes and tomorrow I will wake up and I will still be here. 'I have red shoes,' she said very softly, and Theodora turned and smiled up at her. ~ Shirley Jackson
Classic Novels quotes by Shirley Jackson
You aren't my type, just the way that I am not yours. But that's why we are good for each other - we are so different, yet we're the same. You told me once that I bring out the worst in you. Well, you bring out the best in me. I know you feel it, too, Tessa. And yes, I didn't date, until you. You make me want to date, you make me want to be better. I want you to think I am worthy of you; I want you to want me the way I do you. I want to fight with you, even scream at each other until one of us admits we are wrong. I want to make you laugh, and listen to you ramble about classic novels. I just . . . I need you. I know I am cruel at times . . . well, all the time, but that's only because I don't know how else to be." His voice becomes a half whisper, his eyes wild. "This has been me for so long, I have never wanted to be any other way. Until now, until you." - Hardin ~ Anna Todd
Classic Novels quotes by Anna Todd
Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the succession from one frame to another can hinder a sense of resolution. Everything happens fast, but nothing actually happens. Each story on televised news is "breaking" until it is displaced by the next one. So we are hit by wave upon wave but never see the ocean.

The effort to define the shape and significance of events requires words and concepts that elude us when we are entranced by visual stimuli. Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.

More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the narrowing of vocabularies, and the associated difficulties of thought. In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, published in 1953, firemen find and burn books while most citizens watch interactive television. In George Orwell's 1984, published in 1949, books are banned and television is two-way, allowing the government to observe citizens at all times. In 1984, the language of visual media is highly constrained, to starve the public of the concepts needed to think about the present, remember the past, and consider the future. One of the regime's projects is to lim ~ Timothy Snyder
Classic Novels quotes by Timothy Snyder
It's where my mother hopes to read classic novels again one day when she isn't working nine days a week, ~ A.S. King
Classic Novels quotes by A.S. King
The bookstore itself was cozy but not crowded, with posters of classic novels framed and hung on the walls. And it was filled with that wonderful book smell that anyone who's ever even been near a book will recognize. It's more than the smell of paper; it's the smell of the high seas and adventure and far off worlds. It's the smell of a billion billion worlds, each a portal to somewhere new. ~ Shaun David Hutchinson
Classic Novels quotes by Shaun David Hutchinson
Her eyes are classic novels and poetry. ~ Isaac Marion
Classic Novels quotes by Isaac Marion
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. ~ Daniel Silva
Classic Novels quotes by Daniel Silva
Thank you, I think. And what is your name?" Keirah called out a bit more loudly, as she watched Darius retreat ... "His name is of no consequence." A male's loud, booming voice came from behind the two men who remained. The sound of his voice was gritty, husky, and the sound brought a spark to Keirah's blood. ~ Madison Thorne Grey
Classic Novels quotes by Madison Thorne Grey
I'm a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play 'World of Warcraft,' I'm a massive gamer, I have 'Star Trek' outfits. ~ Robert Kazinsky
Classic Novels quotes by Robert Kazinsky
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes. ~ Hedi Slimane
Classic Novels quotes by Hedi Slimane
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays ~ Umberto Eco
Classic Novels quotes by Umberto Eco
One of the things that I'd like to get back to that I did as a younger actor was to work on, you know, a rep season for a summer where you did two or three Shakespeares, and you'd do a couple of either new plays or classic plays, and you did a different one almost every night. ~ Thomas Gibson
Classic Novels quotes by Thomas Gibson
What I want is a way to put Universal monster toys back in the aisles alongside 'Star Wars' and all the other stuff and introduce today's kids to the classic monsters. ~ Harry Knowles
Classic Novels quotes by Harry Knowles
I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job. ~ Michael Robotham
Classic Novels quotes by Michael Robotham
Novels are narratives to be in. To live in. To exist in. Not primarily forms to jump into and get to the end of. It's a substance that the great big novel becomes…which invites you to be in it, not necessarily to leave it. To move around in it. To move laterally. ~ Joseph McElroy
Classic Novels quotes by Joseph McElroy
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ~ P.G. Wodehouse
Classic Novels quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic. ~ Tommy Hilfiger
Classic Novels quotes by Tommy Hilfiger
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. ~ D. B. Weiss
Classic Novels quotes by D. B. Weiss
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. ~ John Gregory Dunne
Classic Novels quotes by John Gregory Dunne
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels. ~ Eileen Myles
Classic Novels quotes by Eileen Myles
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Classic Novels quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since. ~ Sharon Creech
Classic Novels quotes by Sharon Creech
You bloody silly fool! ~ Prince Philip
Classic Novels quotes by Prince Philip
I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would get to the office at 6:30 a.m. and write until other people arrived, around 9. Now I still do that. I start at 6:30 or 7, and I'll write until 11, then take an hour off, then work until about 2 p.m. By then my brain has had enough. ~ Steve Berry
Classic Novels quotes by Steve Berry
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up. ~ Cyril Connolly
Classic Novels quotes by Cyril Connolly
I'm not crazy."
"Said every loony that ever lived. ~ Kelly Moran
Classic Novels quotes by Kelly Moran
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He's an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on. ~ Nate Berkus
Classic Novels quotes by Nate Berkus
But no one said a word, because people hardly ever mention the very things that occur right in front of them. ~ Mary Ann D'Alto
Classic Novels quotes by Mary Ann D'Alto
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. ~ David Amram
Classic Novels quotes by David Amram
Don't be afraid of what others may think. Your creativity belongs to you, your inspiration, your imagination is all yours. Be passionate and write with fire in your words. Allow no boundaries to what you feel and believe. The spark that drives you to write is the fuel for your desire to create great novels. Know that you have the spirit within. ~ Sheila Renee Parker
Classic Novels quotes by Sheila Renee Parker
I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know." ~ Edwidge Danticat
Classic Novels quotes by Edwidge Danticat
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. ~ Adriana Trigiani
Classic Novels quotes by Adriana Trigiani
Another memory comes, not of the final time I saw Ligeia but a week before she disappeared, something mundane yet vivid. The mystery of memory. There's surely some scientific explanation for why the brain decides Don't let go of this. I've read novels and cannot recall a single character's name and yet I remember a red bicycle glanced once in a hardware-store window, a mole on a stranger's chin, a kitchen match lying beside a hearth. These remain, as does Ligeia reaching into her locker, a book crooked in her arm sliding free. ~ Ron Rash
Classic Novels quotes by Ron Rash
Like each morning he was putting his identity on inside out while dressing in the dark. ~ Vivian Barz
Classic Novels quotes by Vivian Barz
Over the previous few weeks, I'd finally perfected the Julia St. Clair wedding cupcake: classic lemon cake with a hidden heart of my mom's boldly flavoured passion fruit filling, slathered high with Julia's favorite vanilla buttercream icing and glammed up a bit with sparkling curls of candied lemon rind. ~ Meg Donohue
Classic Novels quotes by Meg Donohue
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy. ~ Kristy McNichol
Classic Novels quotes by Kristy McNichol
When just a kid, moved back to Canada and looking for a taste of England, I'd picked up a book of my Gram's, a dog-eared romance from the 'sixties about English hospital 'sisters' trying to get it on with the doctors, and thought it very shocking behaviour for nuns. ~ Roberta Pearce
Classic Novels quotes by Roberta Pearce
Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the most bearable place to be. ~ Javier Marias
Classic Novels quotes by Javier Marias
The only one of the early investigators who carried the exploration of hysteria to its logical conclusion was Breuer's patient Anna O. After Breuer abandoned her, she apparently remained ill for several years. And then she recovered. The mute hysteric who had invented the "talking cure" found her voice and her sanity, in the women's liberation movement. Under a pseudonym, Paul Berthold, she translated into German the classic treatise by Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, and authored a play, Women's Rights. Under her own name, Bertha Papenheim became a prominent feminist social worker, intellectual, and organizer. In the course of a long and fruitful career she directed an orphanage for girls, founded a feminist organization for Jewish women and traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East to campaign against the sexual exploitation of women and children. Her dedication, energy and commitment were legendary. In the words of a colleague, 'A volcano lived in this woman... Her fight against the abuse of women and children was almost a physically felt pain for her.' At her death, the philosopher Martin Buber commemorated her: 'I not only admired her but loved her, and will love her until the day I die. There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionate spirit. Bertha Pappenheim was a woman with just such a spirit. ~ Judith Lewis Herman
Classic Novels quotes by Judith Lewis Herman
It is while prone that ideas come. "A writer could get more ideas for his articles or his novels in this posture than he could by sitting doggedly before his desk morning and afternoon," writes Lin Yutang in his essay "On Lying in Bed. ~ Tom Hodgkinson
Classic Novels quotes by Tom Hodgkinson
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. ~ Joseph Campbell
Classic Novels quotes by Joseph Campbell
Einstein's breakthrough was classic in that it sought to unify the elements of a physical analysis, and it placed the older examples and principles within a broader framework. But it was revolutionary in that, ever afterward, we have thought differently about space and time, matter and energy. Space and time-no more absolute-have become forms of intuition that cannot be divorced from perspective or consciousness, anymore than can the colors of the world or the length of a shadow. As the philosopher Ernst Cassirer commented, in relativity, the conception of constancy and absoluteness of the elements is abandoned to give permanence and necessity to the laws instead. ~ Howard Gardner
Classic Novels quotes by Howard Gardner
She had pronounced the words "New Books" with caution and regret, articulating them reluctantly, as if they were vulgar, even obscene words. As I listened to her, I realised that that it was indeed a commercial term, used to designate an item in fashion, but inappropriate to define a literary work; I also realised that to her eyes I was nothing but an author of 'New Books' a supplier in a way. "But novels by Daudet or Maupassant - weren't they 'New Books' when they came out?" I asked.

"Time has given them their place", she replied, as though I had just said something insolent. ~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Classic Novels quotes by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Remember where you are and adjust yourself accordingly, not vice-versa ... otherwise, you might be toast. ~ Alisa Steinberg
Classic Novels quotes by Alisa Steinberg
Even Clark French's novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low point; the novels predictably ended in a crescendo of benevolence. ~ John Irving
Classic Novels quotes by John Irving
Ghosts from the past weave spells in the present to draw a veil of secrecy over the future. ~ Sean Best
Classic Novels quotes by Sean Best
It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album. ~ Beanie Sigel
Classic Novels quotes by Beanie Sigel
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