201 quotes found
“The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writers life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.”
“The sweet-smelling aroma of the island spices still hung in the air. It filled his nostrils and titillated his appetite all over again. His appetite drove him mad for something much more than food.”
“Over the years most of my peers had come to hate meI never understood why. I guess I was just different and, like dogs, they could smell it. So I never had many friends.”
“If a dog can love us unconditionally, why can't we love each other in the same way?”
“Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?”
“Putting some 'gray in play,' as Chad referred to it, always helped. HE said the act of rationalizing the pros and cons helped to cloud the issues enough to avoid a moral quandary. It allowed us to ...”
“The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.”
“Like the turtle's shell, the sense of self serves as a shield against stimulation and as a burden which limits mobility into possibly dangerous areas. The turtle rarely has to think about what's on...”
“True, beneath the human facade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachiabut at least Id learned to walk and talk enough lik...”
“I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - is all only illusory events created by a stone mask to justify an illusory stagnant ...”
“Those who are in pain most of the worlds populations at any given moment do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot...”
“It is our contemporary cultures tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffer...”
“I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, Id just been born?”
“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parentsAuthentic parenting is one long sacrificial actparenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we...”
“Subtlety is the mark of confidence and is thus by far the hardest thing for a writer to achieve.”
“Sometimes a lie builds until the truth does more harm than good”
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide bet...”
“I wouldnt be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”
“Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who youll run into and its always smart to look your best.”
“She skinned her hair back into a ponytail, a style she knew was probably too young for her, but she planned to drive with her windows open and she could ditch the elastic band once she got to the l...”
