Long Dead Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage
How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent. — Lord Dunsany
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest… — Marcus Aurelius
It's stupid to claim that one human being is special, or picked out by God, when in fact there are hundreds of millions of human… — Louis de Bernieres
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much… — Moses Mendelssohn
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you… — Alan Bennett
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar,… — Jack Kerouac
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman
Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and… — Susanna Clarke
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot… — N.D. Wilson
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree. Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of… — Vikram Seth
And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years,… — Lord Dunsany
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead… — Edith Wharton
Computers will have to learn that when I quote from some old author who spelled differently from the machine, the wishes of the long-dead author… — Robertson Davies
Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the… — Robert Graves
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there are also those who think… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long… — Robin Hobb

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