The Book of Air and Shadows
Michael Gruber
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. ”
“There are three kind of history. The first is what really happened and that is forever lost. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened and that is 90 percent of the history in books.”
“The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good. ”
“Thus, although life is by and large unthrilling, when we do find ourselves in the sort of situation upon which thrillers dote we cannot really experience it, because our imaginations are occupied by the familiar tropes of popular fiction. And the result of this is a kind of dull bafflement, and the sense that whatever it is cannot really be happening. We actually think that phrase: this can’t be happening to me.”
“He said there are three kinds of history. The first is what really happened, and that is lost forever. The second is what most people thought happened, and we can recover that with assiduous effort. The third is what the people in power wanted the future to think happened, and that is 90 percent of the history in books.”
“Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?”
“armed, Crosetti found, felt a lot like having a broken zipper on your fly, something that made you feel self-conscious and”
“Young Charles Dickens started out as a court reporter, and scholars believe that this experience formed the sense of the human drama evident in his novels. Besides which, those novels are nearly all about crimes, mainly of the white-collar type.”
“Villains are just there, like rust, dull and almost chemical in the stupid simplicity of their greed or pride.”
“The problem with evil people is that they can see only evil in others. It is one of the worst curses of being evil, that you can no longer experience good.”
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