23 Quotes by Mark Beauregard

Original sin is a very commercial idea,” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?

[...] let it be said that I am the most reverent shaman in the New World, about other matters spiritual and divine, let others be the judge! [...] soon the true literature of this sleepy nation will shine out from the starry constellations of the Berkshires.

This fever of longing is not love, he thought, it is the opposite of love. It is the separation from love that burns like the fires of hell.

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong buy when he must choose between two wrongs.

He felt a wave of optimism lift him up, a renewed faith that the world could deliver unanticipated wonders.

This is how beauty must be, he thought, not pretty and safe but unbearable and blank and fierce with the horror of isolation.

Because, in your stories, you seem to understand that true dramatic moments come not when a character must choose between right and wrong but when he must choose between two wrongs.

He suddenly saw the enterprise of literature as essentially mad.

Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.