Cultural relativism Quote by Compton Mackenzie

“Perhaps that was the genuine siren’s song of legend, the temptation to jettison the ballast of the past and rush weightless and unencumbered down…

— Mark Frost

“I could not help weeping with him - not over my own fate which, however clearly laid out, was just as sad as his,…

— Jean-Marie Deguignet

“The scene was horrid, yet it had the purity of a stanza from a ballad come to life, a ballad composed about tragic events…

— Lucius Shepard

“Even I would be moved by his kindness at times, but he could, just as easily, be malicious and cruel. He was both a…

— Haruki Murakami

“He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy…

— August Strindberg

“It is only a deep echo, perhaps a reverberation of her husband’s madness, as soft as a rustle of batwings in a cave.”

— Stephen King

“I believe he’s a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a…

— Iris Johansen

“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt…

— Lyndsay Faye

“I’ve come to know him well, and have discovered that shrouded behind his touchy and volatile exterior, there crouches a warm and considerate human…

— Karl Wiggins

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged…

— Jack Kerouac

“But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon