"We're a culture that's obsessed with people who make and who squander ridiculous amounts of wealth, which seemed an obsession well worth interrogating in a novel. That probably accounts for what some have called the book's "sweeping" feel, but I don't know that I set out to be cinematic. I wouldn't know how to do that in a novel, specifically."

-- Matthew Specktor

#People Quotes #Culture Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes

“I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be.”
“People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.”
“Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.”
“I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.”
“We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane.”

Source : "For one day only, I'm a Lib Dem". www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2005.
“You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?”
“there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive.”
“The moment you start complaining, you are already not taking into consideration all the good things Allah [God] has given you.”

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