Fact Crime Book

Famous quotes containing the words fact, crime and/or book:

“The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that they are thieves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State’s crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.”
—Ian McEwan (b. 1938)

“How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)