"This life isn't bad for a first draft."

-- Joan Konner

#Firsts Quotes #This Life Quotes

“You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons”
“As a kid, I was the neighbourhood baby-sitter - very responsible, always in charge.”
“For every sad thing you think of, you should think of three happy things to chase it away.”
“The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.”

Source : Adam Langer (2013). “The Salinger Contract: A Novel”, p.250, Open Road Media
“I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.”
“'The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS's targeting of conservative applicants,' the Oversight report states. 'Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS's targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.'”
“A lot of people look at me as a big person. Some people consider me to be obese. Some people consider me fat and sloppy. Everybody knows that I have a big stomach, but I think sometimes that overshadows everything else on my body - from my calves to my back to my shoulders to my biceps. What people go to the gym and work for, I have. The only thing I don't have that they got is six - packs. But I really don't care about six-packs.”
“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.”

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