Ian Caldwell
Ian Caldwell
Ian Caldwell is an American novelist known for co-authoring the 2004 novel The Rule of Four. His second book, The Fifth Gospel, was published in 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 March 1976
CountryUnited States of America
thinking two people
Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.
two age hardest
The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.
men perfection long
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
art book reading
I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
wall saws standing
...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
sorrow lasts pandoras-box
Hope...which is whispered from PAndora's box only after all the other plauges and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is onl time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.