"no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed"

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Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.125, Delacorte Press

William Landay

#Knowing Quotes

“That is again a romantic notion: the hero. I think people enjoy a much more levelled playing field where you have the ability for many people to become heroes.”

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“You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.”
“Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.”
“Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.”
“There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.”
“I wasnâ€™t invited to be on staff at the Simpsons because they didnâ€™t want any women on staff at the time”
“There are not many beginnings but there is a single Beginning, prior to multitude. But if you were to say that the beginnings are plural apart from their partaking of the One, that statement would self-destruct. For, surely, these plural beginnings would be both alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One, and not alike, by virtue of their not partaking of the One.”
“If all good, respectable people had one face, I'd spit in it.”

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