Jonathan Messinger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Running #Thinking #Mopeds
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Pages #Telling The Truth #Impulse
The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Pain #Past #Men
Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Book #Reading #Self
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one of the most impactful influences on American writers, even if they don't know it. That's largely because she makes economy seem so easy. You could read several of her stories into a friend's voicemail box before you were cut off (and you should). You could fit one of her stories in this column. Some you could write on your palm.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Writing #Cutting #Years
"How could you love something so destructive?" I ask. "Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same."
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Heart #Care #Taste
Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.
-- Jonathan Messinger

#Awards #Years #Easy

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah.

Jonathan Messinger famous quotes

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