"Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come."

-- Ariel Gore

#Perfect Quotes

“Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.”
“They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.”
“He knows what I'm thinking. Always. We're connected. The atoms between us ferry messages back and forth.”
“Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.”
“It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
“I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.”

Source : Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“In this [fashion] business you're living in the future a lot of the time.”

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