Christine Schutt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.
-- Christine Schutt

#Bed #Chance #Lovers
Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.
-- Christine Schutt

#Hurt #Broken #Seductive
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters, in search of completion and contentment, must wrestle with that prerequisite of faith: a willingness to believe in the unseen.
-- Christine Schutt

#Believe #Blessed #Character
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the strange again and the simplest confessions are made moments of sublime wonder. Hold on to this book.
-- Christine Schutt

#Book #Apology #Sublime

Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
Keep trying until you have no more chances left.
I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
Failure comes when you donâ€™t listen. You canâ€™t put something out there and assume itâ€™s great. Itâ€™s up to us to make sure weâ€™re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.

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