"Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem."

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Rick Moody

#Bookstores Quotes #Problem Quotes #Genre Quotes

“Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.”
“I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.”
“I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.”
“when one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove ...”

Source : Phyllis Eleanor Bentley (1962). “"O Dreams, O Destinations": An Autobiography”, London : Gollancz
“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman”
“The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
“Today's liberals wish to disarm us so they can run their evil and oppressive agenda on us. The fight against crime is just a convenient excuse to further their agenda. I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams' guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.”
“The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.”

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