"The novella is at once the most elegant and demanding form: a writer must balance the looseness of a novel with the concision of a short story, a feat that only the bravest and most talented of us can manage. In Brazil, Jesse Lee Kercheval proves, yet again, that she is exactly the right writer for the job. A wild American picaresque, Brazil snaps along briskly, yet feels full-fleshed, and brims with a sly wit and grace."

-- Lauren Groff

#Jobs Quotes #Grace Quotes #Balance Quotes

“In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.”
“Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.”
“I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.”
“The fifth member of my band is my non-profit work.”
“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.”
“I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain”

Source : Song: Bring The Pain, Album: Tical
“Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.”
“If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup.”

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