John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore”
Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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“A desert is a place without expectation.”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1625), Of Judicature
“These are Fortunate Islands,
These are lands without a place”
Fernando Pessoa book Mensagem
Poem "As Ilhas Afortunadas", verses 11-12
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Original: São ilhas afortunadas,
São terras sem ter lugar
“The place displayed luxury without comfort, ostentation without are. I hated it.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 44, “I Am Gretamara/On Chottem” (p. 398)
“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”
Terry Goodkind book Soul of the Fire
Source: Soul of the Fire
“The world would be a sad place without mysteries.”
David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 2
“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
“A world with no place for God is dark, empty without hope.”
Massimo Introvigne (1955) Italian philosopher
"Filming the Age of Kingdom: The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God" https://bitterwinter.org/end-times-and-the-movies-of-cag/
“Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it.”
George Kubler (1912–1996) American art historian
Source: The Shape of Time, 1982, p. 8