"When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you."

-- Daniel Woodrell

#Running Quotes #Risk Quotes #Boring Quotes

“It has become obligatory to fulfil a function which shall in some way be regarded as useful to the masses...Even an articulated mass always tends to become unspiritual and inhuman. It is life without existence, superstition without faith. It may stamp all flat; it is disinclined to tolerate independence and greatness, but prone to constrain people to become as automatic as ants.”
“Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession is to strike the right balance of mediocrity in writing and thinking, which invariably entails echoing one of two party lines, poorly.”
“I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.”
“Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.”
“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
“Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if”
“This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.”
“Failure has gone to his head.”

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