Quotes
Authors
Chris Adrian

"It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless."

Source : Chris Adrian (2011). “The Great Night: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

Chris Adrian

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“Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.”
“When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.”
“Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.”
“Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ***** as it floats by.”
“I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought â€œto arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.”
“Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.”
“We live in a very powerful country that has worldwide impact. It really is a democracy, so it puts a call to the faithful to get off the couch, right now! I hope we don't have one in three African American kids hungry 10 years from now. There is no reason for that. Forget everything else. We know how to feed kids. We can feed kids without distorting incentives and stuff.”

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“The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.”

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