Quotes Tagged With :conventions

You see what I am driving at. The mentally handicapped do not have a consciousness of power. Because....

As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red....

All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial,....

Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the....

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

I had chosen to play the detective—and if there is one thing that unites all the detectives I've ever....

While we've painted the guardians of the pale in a somewhat reactionary light, let's give the gatekeepers....

Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he....

When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the....

...I’ve never understood the logic that says a work doesn’t need to be judged on the quality of its....