{"author":"Hope Mirrlees","author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["fantasy","hope-mirrlees","involution","lud-in-the-mist","oliviu-craznic","postmodernism","selected","social-class","social-injustice"],"id":2334,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"So fine a medicine is the will to action.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["fantasy","hope-mirrlees","lud-in-the-mist","oliviu-craznic","quotes","selected","will-to-act"],"id":57435,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time must have jogged along this path, in just such a way, and seen and heard the very same things that he was seeing and hearing now.Yes, the Farmer Gibberty had once been a real living man, like himself. And so had millions of others, whose names he had never heard. And one day he himself would be a prisoner, confined between the walls of other people's memory. And then he would cease even to be that, and become nothing but a few words cut in stone. What would these words be, he wondered.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["death","epitaphs","nathaniel-chanticleer"],"id":60768,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["evil-people","fantasy","hope-mirrlees","insanity","lud-in-the-mist","oliviu-craznic","selected"],"id":95030,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["diplomacy","fantasy","hope-mirrlees","lud-in-the-mist","oliviu-craznic","quotes","reason","selected","violence"],"id":132038,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["gothic","literature","romanticism"],"id":145328,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["emotion","fantasy","hope-mirrlees","lud-in-the-mist","oliviu-craznic","selected","sense-and-sensibility","sentimentalism"],"id":206149,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["books","delusions","lies"],"id":284363,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"What's the use of crying, and retching, and belching, all day long, like your lady downstairs? Life has its sad side, and we must take the rough with the smooth. Why, maids have died on their marriage eve, or, what's worse, bringing their first baby into the world, and the world's wagged on all the same. Life's sad enough, in all conscience, but there's nothing to be frightened about in it or to turn one's stomach. I was country-bred, and as my old granny used to say, 'There's no clock like the sun and no calendar like the stars.' And why? Because it gets one used to the look of Time. There's no bogey from over the hills that scares one like Time. But when one's been used all one's life to seeing him naked, as it were, instead of shut up in a clock, like he is in Lud, one learns that he is as quiet and peaceful as an old ox dragging the plough. And to watch Time teaches one to sing. They say the fruit from over the hills makes one sing. I've never tasted so much as a sherd of it, but for all that I can sing.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["death","happiness","life","sadness","time","wisdom"],"id":296488,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"},{"text":"There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.","author":"Hope Mirrlees","tags":["common-sense","fantasy","hope-mirrlees","lud-in-the-mist","oliviu-craznic","selected"],"id":298627,"author_id":"Hope+Mirrlees"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}