"Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either."

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Source : Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

Mark Slouka

#Simple Quotes #Literature Quotes

“If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.”
“Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it blended well with the other amps that were in the studio.”
“I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.”
“The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.”
“What lies lurk in kisses.”
“The unifying of opposites is the eternal process.”
“I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other chick.”

Source : Cynthia Hand (2011). “Unearthly”, p.139, Egmont UK
“Words fail, there are times when even they fail.”

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