Richard Eder Quotes

• Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

  Richard Eder

  Night, Mind, Bed

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• A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

  Richard Eder

  Dust, Years, Chalk

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• In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.

  Richard Eder

  Lying, Book, Silence

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• Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

  Richard Eder

  Onions, Layers

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• Schneider's characters, like Kundera's, are sentient and sophisticated figures at a time when the constraints of Communist rule persist but its energy has entirely vanished.

  Richard Eder

  Character, Energy, Sophisticated

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