#dreads

Besides,” said Mr Norrell, “I really have no desire to write reviews of other people's books. Modern publications upon magic are the most pernicious things in the world, full of misinformation and wrong opinions.” “Then sir, you may say so. The ruder you are, the more the editors will be delighted.” “But it is my own opinions which I wish to make better known, not other people's.” “Ah, but, sir,” said Lascelles, “it is precisely by passing judgements upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.” “Hmm,” said Mr Norrell thoughtfully, “you may be right. But, no. It would seem as if I were lending support to what ought never to have been published in the first place. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#publishing #reviews #satire #satire

To be lost is to be loved ↗

— Aaron Ozee

#aaron-ozee #goodreads #ozee #www-goodreads-com #love

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#also #asleep #believer #connection #deep

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. ↗

— Washington Irving

#communion #contact #dignity #dreads #healthful

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hostility #much #rule #too #too much

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#competition #dreads #fears #pride #rivals

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. ↗

— Ice T

#called #city #come #cop #day

There's a fine line between being brave and just not giving a shit anymore. ↗

— Sara Furlong Burr

#indie-author #indie-books #science-fiction-romance #science

Libations are for the gods. Cocktails are for mere mortals. ↗

— Jonathan Kieran

#blogs #books #goodreads #humor #jonathan-kieran