353 Quotes About Literary-fiction

Success? It has the shortest half-life of any known substance.

I suppose you really like them dirty," said Miss Vyner. "That’s it. Dirty and full of divine mystery," said Cobbler, rolling his eyes and kissing his fingers. “Sheer connoisseurship, I confess, but I’ve always preferred a bit of ripened cheese to a scientifically packaged breakfast food.

It was plain that he had had a lot of training, for nobody ever sang so by the light of Nature.

It is doubtful if, at any time in her life, anyone had sung directly at Miss Pottinger, and she was flustered in a region of her being from which she had had no messages for many years.

Secondrateness comes out of his pores like a fog.

What would you do if you were me?" said Solly. "What would I do in your place?""No, no; you’d do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?

Lots of people do," said Cobbler, "but don’t delude yourself. You’re not the suicidal type." "Why not?" "You’re too gabby. People who talk a lot about their troubles never commit suicide; talk’s the greatest safety-valve there is.

Everything is connected,' Sanjay said. 'Protecting the tiger will protect every species of animal and plant that shares its habitat. The trees that scrub pollution from the air and the rivers that supply water to every living thing.

Ouma always woke up before the birds did. She called it waking up at ‘mossiepop’ — Afrikaans for sparrow’s fart.