Circus-parade Quote by Jim Tully

“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“They were careless people...they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do,…

— Oscar Wilde

“The spirit, my love, is stronger than laughter, stronger than the hungry panting of reckless lions that paw and shuffle underneath the canopy of…

— V.S. Atbay

“Do not speak glibly of virtue. Nothing shall change-nothing-so long as each individual awaits preferment rather than embodying beneficence in himself; so long as…

— M.T. Anderson

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well.…

— H.G. Wells

“They just sat there looking back at me. The orange queen was clacking her typewriter. Cop talk was no more treat for her than…

— Raymond Chandler

“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of my people;…

— Es'kia Mphahlele

“Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest…

— Plutarch

“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

“Who now strides on my trail devouring the distance between no matter how I flee, the wasted breath of my haste cast into the…

— Steven Erikson