The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. – Elias Canetti
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti
In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning. – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18