"Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me."

--

Source : Novelists, Poets and Playwrights (2002).

Edna O'Brien

#People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Way Quotes

“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
“If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.”

Source : Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.138, PM Press
“Think on your toes, use what's around you, and come up with something organic and fun.”
“At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.”

Source : "Song: "Think About It. Think, Think About It"". 2008.
“Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot therefore be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in errors.”
“I think nothing ever ends on Disney Channel. They keep playing it.”
“There's a great rock and roll scene in Sweden. There are many smaller bands like ourselves that are great. Oh yes, there's a band called Eggstone, they're really good, and a band called the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, which is excellent.”

You may also like:

Anne Enright
Author
Colum McCann
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
John Banville
Novelist
John McGahern
Writer
Samuel Beckett
Novelist
William Trevor
Novelist
Andrew O'Hagan
Novelist
Frank O'Connor
Writer