"Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read --……" — David Liss
"Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something."
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12 Quotes by David Liss
David Liss has 12 quotes on this site.
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Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage…
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I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.
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Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.
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I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
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I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a…
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I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain,…
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We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury…
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I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter…
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I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different,…
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another…
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I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
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