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The Forgers QUOTES

The Forgers QUOTES

1 " If, as Emerson wrote, every word was once an idea, every cliché was once a revelation. "

― Bradford Morrow , The Forgers

2 " After a second pint, I entered a pocket of time in which life seemed good, secure, not threatened by the past or “things to come.” I knew I had been living on a kind of sine curve, a rolling wave of ups and downs, now hopeful now doomed, now asleep now insomniac, now cocksure now deeply uncertain. If such a roller coaster of moods and dispositions had taken its toll on me, I thought, imagine what it must have been like for "

― Bradford Morrow , The Forgers

3 " Books make us feel alive, and though we obviously won’t live forever, they make us feel as if we might. "

― Bradford Morrow , The Forgers

4 " History is subjective. History is alterable. History is, finally, little more than modeling clay in a very warm room. "

― Bradford Morrow , The Forgers

5 " quoting Tacitus’s epigram “Omne ignotum pro magnifico”—everything unknown is wonderful "

― Bradford Morrow , The Forgers

6 " There is a bookseller out there for every bibliophilic obsession known to humankind. You want a seventeenth-century book on microscopy with engraved illustrations on the life cycle of mosquitoes? There is a dealer who can provide you with that. You fancy rare volumes on Antarctic exploration or the history of ancient Egyptians? "

― Bradford Morrow , The Forgers