"Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal."

-- Roddy Doyle

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.”
“Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.”
“She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didnâ€™t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.”
“The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun.”
“The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.”
“I do that in whatever language of the country I'm in, because the audience appreciate it.”
“At first the ancient images of the Goddess did not interest me.”
“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2014). “The Paul Chowder Chronicles: The Anthologist and Traveling Sprinkler, Two Novels”, p.22, Penguin

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