"Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order."

-- Tobias Wolff

#Order Quotes #Insightful Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles”
“No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.”
“Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from anything. Well I was very fond of my brother and I could completely imagine his suffering and I replied that five thousand Chinamen was something I could not imagine and so it was not interesting. One has to remember that about imagination, that is when the world gets dull when everybody does not know what they can or what they cannot really imagine.”
“What is cooking? 'Cooking' is a loose term. It's understanding energy or the lack thereof,”
“The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as the Cornerstone.”
“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”
“If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.”
“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

Source : Stanislaw Lem (2012). “One Human Minute”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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