Able Quote by Robert Penn Warren

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to…

— Charles Frazier

“What he wasn't so good at was manipulating the internal states of other humans, getting them to see things his way, do things for…

— Neal Stephenson

He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as…

— Christopher McDougall

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at…

— Charles Baudelaire

As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary man, one set apart from…

— Sherwood Anderson

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him.…

— Jack London

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and…

— William Faulkner

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

— John Irving

He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.

— Greg Mortenson

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

— Richard Yates

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens