Robert Boswell famous quotes
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What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?
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Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
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Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.
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Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
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Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
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Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
-- Robert Boswell
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I think you should know that real-life white people are not all as funny as the ones on 'Seinfeld'.
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.
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In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
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I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.
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A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
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