Quotes by : Matthew Pearl

A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle,....

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and....

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men....

Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell,....

Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it.....

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including....

Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the....

A man's library opens up his character to the world.

exaggeration is the octopus of the English language

These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without....