"Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?"

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Source : Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

Blake Butler

#Book Quotes #Reality Quotes #Enough Time Quotes

“Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.”
“What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium.”
“How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.”
“You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.”
“I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.”
“No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.”
“Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.”

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