Quotes
Authors
Wil McCarthy
"Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always." --
Source : Wil McCarthy (2009). “The Collapsium”, p.319, Bantam
Wil McCarthy
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“Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.”
Source : Aravind Adiga (2011). “Last Man in Tower”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”
“Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.”
“My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.”
“I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.”
“I intend to remember ... even the sun shines above the storm.”
“...“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,†exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, ‘Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.’ But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.â€...”
“A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.”