Matthew Pearl Quotes
I prefer the society of one faithful person to an association of rapid talkers, who more than anything else seek admiration from one another.
Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.
Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.
Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow," said Holmes, "you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.
Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.
I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.
Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend--that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.
People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.
These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.
He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
It is not when a man is at the end of his life, but when a man is at the end of his profession, that his soul shows itself.
Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
