
Although they never read this book, look what they said:
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. - Edith Wharton
"God and I both knew what I meant once, now God alone knows."
- Friedrich Klopstock
"Humankind cannot bear much reality." - T.S. Eliot
"There be things that be stretched, but mostly he told the truth." - Mark Twain
"Words, words, words" - Wm. Shakespeare
"Style is the dress of thought, a modest dress, neat but not gaudy, which will true critics please." - Rev'd Samuel Wesley
"Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions." - Charles Colton
"The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means." - Oscar Wilde