"Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence."

-- Fay Weldon

#Fall Quotes #Support Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.163, Courier Corporation
“There is less gray area there, less doubt. There is a security in being some thing all the way. Our culture, too, encourages this way of being - exaggeration, for example, is the key to advertising success in the United States. But hyperbole also seems a big part of Iranian culture, as well.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.”
“If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"”
“Problems exist only in the human mind.”
“I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.”

Source : "The Efficacy and Ethics of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy". Remarks by John O. Brennan at the Wilson Center, www.wilsoncenter.org. April 30, 2012.
“Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.”
“At every stage in life you think about death. But teenagers especially are sort of invincible. They're not supposed to be thinking about dying yet, or else they'd be too afraid to live.”

Source : "New Again: Claire Danes". Interview with Emily McDermott and Mark Marvel, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2013.

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