"When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails."

-- Philipp Meyer

#Novel Quotes #Deals Quotes #Rail Quotes

“It's not that I'm afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.”
“Even cities have their graves!”
“What we eat is a matter of life and death.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.57, A&C Black
“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”

Source : George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.153, Courier Corporation
“I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.”
“'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied.”
“On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.”
“You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.”

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