John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1966)
2000s, 2001
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, (1966)
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Þórunn of Kambar
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
“It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow”
Diane Duane book To Visit the Queen
Source: To Visit the Queen
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Patheos, The Cow http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2016/01/22/the-cow/ (January 22, 2016)
“Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?”
Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature
Source: Life is Elsewhere
Bruce E. Levine American psychologist
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824–1895) French writer and dramatist, son of the homonym writer and dramatist
Ce monde commence où l'épouse légale finit, et il finit où l'épouse vénale commence, il est séparé des honnêtes femmes par le scandale, des courtisanes par l'argent.
Preface to Le Demi-Monde (1855), in Théatre complet de Al. Dumas fils (Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1868-98) vol. 2, p. 10; translation from Albert D. Vandam Undercurrents of the Second Empire (London: William Heinemann, 1897) p. 247.