"If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace."

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Source : Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.76, Canongate Books

Ben Fountain

#Long Quotes #Gone Quotes #Way Quotes

“Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.”
“Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.”
“We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.”
“I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.”
“Hazel had read enough books to know that a line like this one is the line down which your life breaks in two. And you have to think very carefully about whether you want to cross it, because once you do itâ€™s very hard to get back to the world you left behind. And sometimes you break a barrier that no one knew existed, and then everything you knew before crossing the line is gone. But sometimes you have a friend to rescue. And so you take a deep breath and then step over the line and into the darkness ahead.”
“As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.”
“I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.”
“It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next.”

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