"However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story."

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Jonathan Lethem

#Character Quotes #Stories Quotes #Duration Quotes

“There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other peopleâ€™s lives.”
“Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.”
“No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.”
“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”
“I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.”
“What’s wrong with just talking? Isn’t that why bars were invented? So you could talk to somebody over a drink—as opposed to sitting at home alone getting sloshed?”
“All that we can't say is all we need to hear.”

Source : Song: Never Leave Lonely Alone, Album: Both Sides of the Gun, 2006

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