"I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction."

-- Paul Auster

#Thinking Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.”
“I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one, I think to myself: 'why in the world do I think I know how to do this?'”

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“Growing up as a kid, there were so many people that I disliked, I daydreamed about hurting them. Hell just seemed like a good place for all of them to go. Unfortunately, I don't believe it exists.”
“If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.”
“I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.”
“The children of our Lord walk gladly in his ways; they have confidence in him, and so when they fall, they rise again; and if, instead of stopping to grumble about the stone they have tripped over, they humble themselves at their fall, this helps them to advance with great strides in his love.”
“He pulls the hood over my head. I try to pull back. I'm not trying to run away. I just want to see her... One last time...”
“Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.”

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