Source: Prisoner of Love
“Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Source: Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930), p. 140.<!-- Doubleday Doran & Co. -->
Context: Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) English poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian
“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”
Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Variant: ... anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.
Source: Saga, Vol. 6
George Orwell book Down and Out in Paris and London
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 2, Charlie
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Non-Fiction, Flame Into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (1985)
“Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.”
Dan Brown book Deception Point
Source: Deception Point
“There is nothing that hasn't happened, but much that hasn't been told.”
Fritiof Nilsson Piraten (1895–1972) Swedish writer
