Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
“When you are young you do not understand how different then and now are because you have lived only in now and it feels… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
“Things happened, as soon as they had they were in the past, once they were, there was nothing you could do. Days and nights… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven; And bright with beckoning angelsbut alas! We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams,… — Alan Judd Copy Share Image
![“Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.” quote by Alan Judd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0c1/alan-judd-56492_achievement_brings-o-brian-s-achievement-to-a-new-he_3027183.jpg)