"Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here."

-- Frederick Busch

#Why Not Quotes #Littles Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“Success is not a destination, it's a journey.”
“One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates....”
“The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.”
“I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.”
“I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL.”

Source : Interview with Benjamin Cohen, www.believermag.com. September 2009.
“It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.”
“Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.”
“A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.”

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