Books Quote by Blaine Harden

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The thing I understood least of all was that knowledge led to despair and damnation. Our spiritual mentor had not said that those bad…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“In idyllic small towns I sometimes see teenagers looking out of place in their garb of desperation, the leftover tatters and stains and slashes…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love…

— Petrarch

“Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in…

— Jane Austen

“By the age of four one has experienced nearly everything one needs to be a writer of fiction; love, pain, loss, boredom, rage, guilt…

— Nicholas Delbanco

“For a terrible time of life a teen-ager deceives himself; he believes he can trick the world. He believes he is invulnerable. An adolescent…

— John Irving

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for…

— Christopher Nuttall