"Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?"

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Source : Mark Slouka (2011). “God's Fool”, p.158, Vintage

Mark Slouka

#Heartless Quotes #Absurd Quotes #Tales Quotes

“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”
“...it may be that there is no God, that the existence of all that is beautiful and in any sense good is but the accidental and ineffective byproduct of blindly swirling atoms, that we are alone in a world that cares nothing for us or for the values that we create and sustain - that we and they are here for a moment only, and gone, and that eventually there will be left no trace of us in the universe. A man may well believe that this dredful thing is true. But only the fool will say in his heart that he is glad that it is true.”
“The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.”
“San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.”
“If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.”

Source : Brent Weeks (2009). “The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel”, p.123, Hachette UK
“I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.”
“When a court goes too far, it actually weakens our respect for judicial institutions.”
“A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.”

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