Djuna-barnes Quote by Shaun Whiteside

“It gave me no hope to see him doing these simple things with the sluggishness of a somnambulist. It proved nothing more than that…

— Anne Rice

“My note was a strange mixture of facts and observations, carefully noted and itemised, with irrepressible meditations on what such problems might 'mean', in…

— Oliver Sacks

“Passing from one dimension to another, he feels that nothing is left behind, but rather is always with him in the moment. His life…

— Ralph Gibson

“Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the labour…

— Walter Scott

“I thought his memory was like the other memories of the dead that accumulate in every man's life,—a vague impress on the brain of…

— Joseph Conrad

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

“Archias . . . was given a paper telling about the design on his life, while sitting at table the evening of the night…

— W. A. Oldfather

“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long…

— H.G. Wells