"I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Historical Quotes #Stories Quotes #Novel Quotes

“You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.”
“There is no room for being creative in todayâ€™s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.”
“Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow (1989). “More Classics Revisited”, p.102, New Directions Publishing
“Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."”
“Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.”
“Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.
“Only people who are well off can be - complex.”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.”

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