34 quotes found
“Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?”
“When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.”
“I wouldnt be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”
“I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”
“Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because its too crowded.”
“Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.”
“It was a rotten time to try to be a man in America. Until Blue came along Id never even spent time around a man. Hell, Id never even seen one. Where were all the men in this once great land?”
“I just want to live my own life instead of everyone elses version of it.”
“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly re...”
“I am, as it were, the created creatinga paradox, for all its rhetorical trappings, at the beating heart of our shared human journey, and one I invite you to struggle with just as I have while, day ...”
“Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossro...”
“Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isnt it like taking a bite of something love...”
“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper...”
“The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was.”
“I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothingas if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant o...”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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?”
“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...”
“Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, its a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.”
“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a strangers bleeding to death beside the road, most people wont stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a cou...”
