Quotes
Authors
Brian Pinkerton
"I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined." --
Brian Pinkerton
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“People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.”
“If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.”
“Leave an extrovert alone for two minutes and he will reach for his cell phone. In contrast, after an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge. My own formula is roughly two hours alone for every hour of socializing. This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression. It does not call for medication. For introverts, to be alone with our thoughts is as restorative as sleeping, as nourishing as eating. Our motto: I'm okay, you're okay-in small doses.”
“We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.”
“I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.”
“Over the weekend, Vladimir Putin scored eight goals during a hockey game. It happened just after he had the goalie executed.”
“At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.”
“The reality is people are going to steal the record instead of buying it. It's kind of a cancer in the industry where people will just use a streaming service and then won't buy the record.”