Town Quote by William Faulkner

“Tall, impressive, separate from the crowd, a ruler; and yet he looks alone and abandoned. I remember what he told me a long time…

— Georgia Le Carre

“He talks as the man of his age talks -- that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for…

— raymond chandler

“He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can…

— Thomas Harris

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“he is not a member of us who does not show the mercy to smaller than him and respect to the older.”

— Anonymous

“that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk…

— Henry David Thoreau

“In a man, you have to look for character and security, going beyond his age.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“He fears because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink down to his size, or anyone else's, for…

— Rachel Harrison

“I knew he was the one when he mended my wings and looked forward to where they would take me. Embrace those who encourage…

— Melody Lee

“I remember someone saying that the importance of any public man can be gauged by the number of mellifluous young men he has about…

— Doris Lessing