"Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better."

-- Ethan Canin

#Important Quotes #Together Quotes #Narrators Quotes

“There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.”
“Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.”
“The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock-food for the well off-while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation.”
“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mÃ¶bius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”

Source : Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic: A Novel”, p.227, Random House
“I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.”
“I hate dates. I sit at home all day, and I don't fart once. I go on a date and I've got twenty in the bank straight away.”

Source : "Carl Barron Live". Comedy, 2003.
“I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed.”
“We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.”

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