13 quotes found
“Never forget the first three letters of confidence.”
“The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.”
“Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.”
“There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.”
“The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.”
“A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.”
“And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.”
“The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge tha...”
“Wealth announces itself with what's easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.”
“There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of life as dolls and exit as gargoyles.”
“The calcium in collarbones I have kissed. The iron in the blood flushing those cheeks. We imprint our intimacies upon atoms born from an explosion so great it still marks the emptiness of space. A ...”
“In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]”
“No one likes a braggart, and to praise your children is to curse them with misfortune, but we admit it, if only in secret, if only to ourselves: We are proud, we are so proud of them. We've given t...”
