15 quotes found
“The saved moment is the true art of love.”
“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”
“We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.”
“People surprise you, Frank, with just how fuckin stupid they are.”
“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”
“For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.”
“They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to ...”
“It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys?”
“I had written all I was going to write, if the truth had been known, and there is nothing wrong with that. If more writers knew that, the world would be saved a lot of bad books, and more people--m...”
“Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.”
“Some things can't be explained. They just are. And after a while they disappear, usually forever, or become interesting in another way. Literature's consolations are always temporary, while life is...”
“It was if we all sensed we'd be gone someday soon in a sudden instant--often it happened in the middle of the night--and didn't want to get involved. Or else it was that none of us wanted to know a...”
“One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly ti...”
“We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.”
“Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sus...”
