In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked. — Morris West Copy Share Image
“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future” — Morris West Copy Share Image
It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay… — Morris West Copy Share Image
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of… — Morris West Copy Share Image
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“I know what you are thinking - you need a sign. What better one could I give than to make this little one whole… — Morris West Copy Share Image
“The truth ? the truth my dear Ashely is a luxury available only to those who are not involved in its consequences ” — Morris West Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I… — Morris West Copy Share Image
There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't… — Morris West Copy Share Image
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth,… — Morris West Copy Share Image
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs… — Morris West Copy Share Image
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. — Morris West Copy Share Image
I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The… — Morris West Copy Share Image
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible… — Morris West Copy Share Image
You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his… — Morris West Copy Share Image
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies… — Morris West Copy Share Image
