Quotes
Authors
James Atlas

"All of us, I suspect, imagine that a world exists from which we alone have been excluded; all of us have our noses pressed against the glass. But if we contemplate our own lives, not the phantom life on the other side, we might find things in them to envy-a family thatâ€™s intact; a job we like; excellent health (the thing we take for granted and on which all happiness depends). Good fortune is there, however sporadic, however modest, however difficult to achieve. The trick is to recognize it."

-- James Atlas

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“Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.”
“The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesnâ€™t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks itâ€™s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He canâ€™t see right, and heâ€™s haunted by nearly everything. Heâ€™s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. Heâ€™s trying to make do with what heâ€™s done, while he reminds us that weâ€™re all, one way or another, in that position.”
“I am dying of hunger.”
“I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.”
“Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.”

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“In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.”

Source : Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage
“The golden moment when Iâ€™m not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.”
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.”

Source : Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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