David Liss quotes

David Liss quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.”
-- David Liss

Source : David Liss (2008). “The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel”, p.256, Random House

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“Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.”
-- David Liss

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“Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.”
-- David Liss

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“Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.”
-- David Liss

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“In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.”
-- David Liss

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“I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.”
-- David Liss

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“I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.”
-- David Liss

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“I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.”
-- David Liss

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“The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.”
-- David Liss

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“An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.”

Source : 1935 Uncommon Law,'Fox-Hunting Fun'.
“I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.”
“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”
“I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.”

Source : "Biography: Ajay Devgan". www.thecinemaholic.com. March 18, 2018.
“I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.”
“If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious.”
“Wit and judgment often are at strife.”
“It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2003). “That Affair Next Door and Lost Man’s Lane”, p.18, Duke University Press
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
“Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.”

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