The Mummy
Anne Rice
Top 10 Best Quotes
“when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us”
“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions”
“The horror was, Cleopatra meant something to these modern people of the twentieth century which was altogether wrong. She had become a symbol of licentiousness, when in fact she had possessed a multitude of amazing talents. They had punished her for her one flaw by forgetting everything else…Remembered, but not for what she was. A painted whore lying on a silken couch. - Ramses”
“The Romans can not be condemned for the conquest of Egypt; we were conquered by time itself in the end. And all the wonders of this brave new century should draw me from my grief and yet I can not heal my heart; and so the mind suffers; the mind closes as if it were a flower without sun”
“When we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true desires—what we would have when that which we do have so sorely disappoints us”
“You’ve learned to express yourselves too well for anything to remain veiled or mysterious.”
“The man just stood there, looking at him; and Elliott had the weirdest sense of being listened to, studied. It made him aware of how inattentive most human beings were in general.”
“She felt herself turning inward, away from all of it, back into the darkness, into the dark water whence she’d come.”
“Lying is actually an underated social skill. Some clever person should write a polite guide to lying. And all the charitable principles which justifiy lying so well.”
“It was so simple to smile at him; he deserved one’s tenderest smile.”
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Book Keywords:
reality, disappointment, speculative-history, love, museum, desires, speculative-fiction, cleopatra, dreams, falsehood, perception, illusion, speculative-historical-fiction, history, lies, incomplete, satisfaction, historical-speculative-fiction, wants
