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Geburtstag: 26. April 1916
Todesdatum: 9. Oktober 1999
Morris Langlo West war ein australischer Schriftsteller.
Zitate Morris L. West
„I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.“
The Heretic (1968)
Kontext: Who said to me, a foetus in the womb, a puling babe, "You have your life, but on the condition that you thus believe?" No one! Not even God! So gentlemen, I say you have no right to make terms for my life. I tell you then — No! I will not recant.
„Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.“
The Clowns of God (1981)
Kontext: Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Author's Note (at the beginning of the novel) <!-- p. 9 -->
„O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music!“
The Heretic (1968)
Kontext: O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums.
„No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness.“
The Heretic (1968)
Kontext: No man — prince, peasant, pope, — has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!
„If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.“
Quelle: The Clowns of God (1981), Ch. II (ellipses in original) <!-- p. 35 -->
This statement begins with a quotation from Horace, Odes, Book I, Ode ix, line 13.
Kontext: "Forbear to ask what tomorrow may bring" … If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
„My father used to say that we surrendered our youth to purchase wisdom. What he never told me was how badly we get cheated on the exchange rate!“
Prince Alessandro Farnese di Mongrifone in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 176
The Lovers (1993)
„Of all the animals in creation, politicians have the shortest memories.“
Pavel Laszlo in Ch. 15, p. 260
The Ringmaster (1991)
„Religion is the good you do in the bad times.“
Gil Langton's late mother, cited twice in Ch. 17, pp. 298 and 300
The Ringmaster (1991)
„Every tribe in the world had its own version of the scapegoat, marked for exile or persecution when the homefolk needed to purge themselves of their own guilts.“
Gil Langton in Ch. 3, p. 49
The Ringmaster (1991)
„You are all caught in the current of history whose headwaters rise in the dark mountains of the past. You cannot change it; you survive and help others to survive by adapting to it.“
Siri (Khun Sirinart, a Thai businesswoman) in Ch. 15, p. 70
The Ringmaster (1991)
„When friends do business, there is no need of contracts. Unfortunately, there are no friends in business.“
Kenji Tanaka quoting a saying he heard from a (presumably fictitious) "very modern Zen master" in Ch. 13, p. 232
The Ringmaster (1991)
„[W]hen you get to Rome you have two other rules to learn: never assume that what you see is what is; never believe that what you're told is the whole truth. It's only when you've grasped that — and the Romans know you've grasped it — that you begin to win respect and make progress.“
Cardinal Francis Spellman in Book 1. London: Mandarin, 1993, p. 67
The Lovers (1993)
„In a marriage you need 'compatibility of conscience.“
Gisela Mundt in Ch. 13
Masterclass (1988)
„The prevalence of evil is the darkest and most frightening mystery of the universe.“
Cardinal Luca Rossini in Ch. 8
Eminence (1998)
„We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.“
Marius Melville in Ch. 17
Cassidy (1986)
„That's what faith is about — living with paradox.“
London: Coronet Books, 1984, p. 78
The World Is Made of Glass (1983)
