"Everything was always something but something â€“ and here was the rub â€“ could never be everything."

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Source : Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.246, Hachette UK

Joshua Ferris

“Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.”
“For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light-our atmosphere. Obviously this was not the ocean of air I had been told it was so many times in my life. I was terrified by its fragile appearance.”
“Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.”
“I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.”
“To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept Godâ€™s agenda for your life.”
“When you see someone, you automatically start putting those people together - the eyes and the lips. And what that does is that it creates an identity with that person, so when they actually start working, the audience sees exactly what you're seeing, and they become recognizable. So instant recognition is when certain women and men have features that look like other people. So baby Gisele is, like, Linda V - that's what she was called for a long time.”
“Good Soldiers don't sacrifice the cause for love - Lucas If the cause isn't love then it isn't worth the sacrifice”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

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