Earnest Quote by Christopher Morley

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“Norbert the Nutjob may have been a maniac, but lunacy and genius are very close together, and it had to be admitted, he was…

— Cressida Cowell

“What was astonishing to him was how people seemed to run out of their own being, run out of whatever the stuff was that…

— Philip Roth

“In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. His family were enormously”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make…

— Erich Fromm

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that…

— Anonymous

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the…

— Jane Leavy

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

— Claire Tomalin