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“When authors write novels, they usually act as if they were God and could completely survey and comprehend”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed — selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful — we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic — and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture.”
East Of Eden • John Steinbeck““Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt””
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes • Amin Maalouf“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court • Mark Twain“Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius