Reese's Half-Hidden Quote Blog

time and love and doom, Those great blue grottoes where the rank intruder Is moved to think in rhyme.

ἅπαντʹ ἐπαχθῆ πλὴν θεοῖσι κοιρανεῖν

Outside of a dog a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

A Russian is a Russian even if you fry them in butter.

And as the same stomach does not always relish the same kind of food, the same mind is not always to be fed on the same kind of writing.

We are on the edge of an abyss. But since then we have made a huge step forward.

Ah! Still, let's not overtax our brains. We'll play billiards--live like Tolstoy, spot of ploughing, then back to the novel!

...the tale was sure to answer, either as a stimulant or a soporific.

Don't take it as a matter of course, but as a remarkable fact, that pictures and fictitious narratives give us pleasure, occupy our minds.

I am aware of the pejorative associations of the word 'escapist,' but I insist that we need all the escapism we can get and even that isn't going to be enough.

I treat my books like I treat my shoes: the more I love them the shoddier they become.