Aspect Quote by Jennifer Egan

“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of…

— Tom Robbins

“Would it really be better, he wanted to ask, if it were always this nice? Would anyone bother to notice? Or would they simply…

— Meg Rosoff

“But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of…

— Adam Nevill

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts…

— Terry Pratchett

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know…

— Joseph Conrad

“Certainly,—and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,—the observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he would, perchance, have pitied this sick…

— Victor Hugo

“He would have been horribly compelled to feel this Earth not as the bottom of a universe but as a ball spinning, and rolling…

— C.S. Lewis

There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science…

— Anonymous

“He’d decided, abruptly, that electronic interaction was toxic, that it downgraded the significance of real human connection, that it resulted in what he called…

— James Han Mattson

“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some points without…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He was a secretive man, who kept his own counsel. He was an ambitious man of humble origins, with colossal designs on the future.…

— Daniel Mark Epstein