"A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Thinking Quotes #Encounters Quotes #Should Quotes

“There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.”

Source : Mary Renault (2013). “The Charioteer: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.71, Hachette UK
“There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.”
“The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.”
“I'm a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.”
“It is almost impossible for anyone outside this damn beltway to really understand how the Congress works. If you aren't here, walking the halls of Congress, sitting at bars and attending parties where you get to knock back some brews with Hill staffers, you don't have a handle on the almost numbing amount of bullshit that goes on.”
“Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.”

Source : Source: www.barnesandnoble.com
“What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”
“We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people.”

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