"Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality."

-- Jorge Luis Borges

#Reality Quotes #Planes Quotes #Novel Quotes

“America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.”
“...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
“Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.”

Source : John Brown (1866). “Expository discourses on the first epistle of ... Peter”, p.117
“When all of this music sounds like you know what you want to say, then it will have been of all worth, ever. You will be something complete unto yourself, present and unique.”
“It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at risk of being injured in a different way.”

Source : "Kevin Powers on The Yellow Birds: 'I felt those things, and asked the same questions'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.
“It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.”
“Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.”
“The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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