#dead

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#built #certainties #comprehend #dead #novel

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed. ↗

— Michael Zaslow

#because #changed #cry #dead #funny

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#admires #after #centuries #conservative #dead

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. ↗

— Philip Roth

#closest friends #deadly #friends #seriousness #sheer

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#deadly #kinds #men #only #two

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#dead #muslim #now #were #woody

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ↗

— John Ruskin

#dead #drop #faults #good #imitate

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#already #dead #fear #life #love is

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ↗

— Charles M. Russell

#forget #her #lose #may #sweetheart