"The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition."

-- Jasper Fforde

#Life Quotes #Long Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“Anything I do, I always have a reason for.”
“It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to stay married: more hope, determination, a sense of humor, and needs that are best met by being in a pair.”
“Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers.”
“I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.”
“And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.”
“Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.”
“I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.”

Source : "Writer-to-Writer: A Conversation David Morrell, Master of the Modern Thriller". Interview with Mark Rubinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.
“As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry”, p.18, New York Review of Books

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