93 quotes found
“There was no arguing with blood.”
“You're either reading a book or you're not.”
“It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.”
“It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.”
“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
“I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outr...”
“If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at th...”
“Their marriages had been Old Testament, hers a matter of honoring her covenant with Charles, Tom's a matter of fearing Anabel's wrath and judgement. In the New Testament, the only things that matte...”
“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”
“The Astors and the Vanderbilts, their pleasure domes and money: she was sick of it. Sick of envying, sick of herself. She didn't understand antiques or architecture, she couldn't draw like Sylvia, ...”
“[H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.]”
“I think the iPod is the true face of Republican politics, and Im in favor of the music industry standing up proud and saying it out loud: We in the Chiclet-manufacturing business are not about soc...”
“THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to...”
“Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It ...”
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he des...”
“It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.”
“If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you dont see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you...”
“Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.”
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.”
“the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida”
“The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through...ringing throughout the house was an alarm bell that no one but Alfred and Enid could hear directly.”
“Plato laments the decline of the oral tradition and the atrophy of memory which writing induces, I at the other end of the Age of the Written Word am impressed by the sturdiness and reliability of ...”
“And did the distress I was feeling derive from some internal sickness of the soul, or was it imposed on me by the sickness of society? That someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities an...”
