To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly. - Eleanor Catton
I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.
- Eleanor Catton
The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above. - Eleanor Catton
The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive. - Eleanor Catton
It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about … - Eleanor Catton
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about …
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into … - Eleanor Catton
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into …
Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you. - Eleanor Catton
Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition. - Eleanor Catton
A man ought never to trust another mans evaluation of a third mans disposition.
Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down… - Eleanor Catton
Astrologys a moving system that depends on where youre looking at it from on Earth. My horoscope here in London would be completely different to down…
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of othe… - Eleanor Catton
I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel," she says. "In my experience, and that of a lot of othe…
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