Sunday, February 20, 2005
“The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.”
- Albert Moravia (1907 – 1990), Italian novelist: quoted by Mary McCarthy in “Observer”, October 14, 1970.
“We should all know what’s at the end of our ropes and how it feels to be there.”
- Richard Ford (b. 1944), American novelist: “The Sportswriter”, 1995.
“I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.”
- Angela Carter (1940 – 1992), English novelist and essayist: “Marxism Today”, January 1985.
- Albert Moravia (1907 – 1990), Italian novelist: quoted by Mary McCarthy in “Observer”, October 14, 1970.
“We should all know what’s at the end of our ropes and how it feels to be there.”
- Richard Ford (b. 1944), American novelist: “The Sportswriter”, 1995.
“I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.”
- Angela Carter (1940 – 1992), English novelist and essayist: “Marxism Today”, January 1985.
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