Corners Quote by Salman Rushdie

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

— Fernand Braudel

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

— Franz Kafka

We cannot escape history.

— Abraham Lincoln

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until…

— V S Naipaul

We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

— Peter J. Carroll

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until…

— V. S. Naipaul

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art,…

— Thomas Huxley

“It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations…

— Bruno Schulz

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

— Melvyn Bragg

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek…

— Ferdinand Magellan

“Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

— Bradley Chicho