History Quote by David Mack

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“How liberating to discover in the modern age that he, a city-dweller, an indoors man who lived by the keyboard and screen, could be…

— Ian McEwan

“returned to his drunken mice, dreaming their placid, inebriated dreams. He reached in and scratched one on the nose; like a bum, or one…

— Lauren Grodstein

“His face was still smarter and more spiritual than others, but it rarely laughed, and assumed, one after another, those features which are so…

— Hermann Hesse

“The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could die laughing.…

— Knut Hamsun

“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all…

— Alaska by James A. Michener

“Walking in, I couldn't help but be impressed with his house. The fireplace was aglow with two armchairs situated in front of it. By…

— Gideon Rathbone

“The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger and the…

— Neal Stephenson

“The room looks as if a giant dog after a large lunch of food, socks, paints, trousers and pencils, walked into that room and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“...one had to expect very little—almost nothing—from life, Aaron knew, one had to be grateful, not always trying to seize the days like some…

— Tao Lin

“It was in the Depot Tavern that he received condolences, accepted funerary offers of drink, and, when these recognitions were exhausted, he sank into…

— William Gaddis

“The situation suddenly felt absurd, and he had to control the urge to laugh out loud, the sheer folly of the midnight escapade catching…

— Paul Fraser Collard