"If the literary category of 'mordant fable' exists at all, it may be because Brock Clarke invented it. The Happiest People in the World is everything we fans have come to love from a Clarke novel: playful and deliriously skewed, and somehow balancing between genuinely great-hearted and gloriously weird."

-- Lauren Groff

#People Quotes #Fans Quotes #World Quotes

“I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.”
“The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.”
“Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“There are no accounting issues, no trading issues, no reserve issues, no previously unknown problem issues.”

Source : "Kenneth Lay: Enron's embattled ex-chairman" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2002.
“I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.”
“Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.”

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