Showing posts with label Literary Quotes. Show all posts
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Literary praise for The Man With Three Arms and Other Stories



Homer - Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this Man With Three Arms.

Virgil - Fortune sides with him who dares to read this book.

Dante Alighieri - All hope abandon, ye who enter here! ………..But then the Man With Three Arms, along with Virgil, will lead you from the Inferno. 

Jane Austen - Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort……especially with this book to enjoy

Geoffrey Chaucer - Time and tide wait for no man……But the Man With Three Arms will.

Miguel de Cervantes - Can we ever have too much of a good thing?

Gabriel García Márquez  - What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Emily Dickenson - Forever is composed of nows. ………….So you should read this book now.

Charles Dickens - There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Scott Fitzgerald - There are no second acts in American lives…………….. But there is a second essay in this book.

James Joyce - I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. ……………….And you won’t find any in this book.

Herman Melville - To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee. ………………But I was determined to finish this book.

Charlotte Bronte - Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel....especially in his essay on Superstitions. 

Leo Tolstoy - One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken…………… Unless you live in the Poconos and read this book.

Lewis Carroll - 'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

William Blake - You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough………. And that’s how I felt after his essay about the toilet.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) - Common sense is not so common…….especially in The Man With Three Arms

Alexander Pope - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Robert Burns - Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickering brattle!.............but read this book before you go.

William Shakespeare - There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy…………..and some are in his story about the bear.

Franz Kafka - As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.



Ernest Hemingway
- It's better than dying alone....in the rain

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