"How did her life live itself without her."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

“I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.”

Source : John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.49, Vintage
“As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.”
“It's up and down, and people are going to love things you do, people are going to hate things you do.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com
“Whats different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. Its all part of the suffocating spin cycle were in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.”
“The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?”
“Occasionally, don't be afraid to say: This is what we deserve.”
“It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.”
“If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”

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