April Bowlby famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
I don't think any decent human being enjoys recruiting.
I'm usually just enjoying life.
Fear is the condom of life. It doesn't allow you to enjoy things.
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.
The best I fight is when I'm just there being a competitor and enjoying myself.

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