"When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual"

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Julianna Baggott

#World Quotes #Obsession Quotes #Mutual Quotes

“When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.”
“If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.”
“I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.”
“If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.”
“It is not easy to free myth from reality or rear this fellow up to lutch, lurch with them in the tranced dancing of men.”
“The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.”
“A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.”
“We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as thought about pancakes. Nothing can prevent us, after eating pancakes, from feeling the most awful regret. After eating pancakes, our great mission in life becomes the repudiation of the pancakes and everything served along with them, the bacon and the syrup and the sausage and coffee and jellies and jams. But these things are beneath mention, compared with the pancakes themselves. It is the pancake--Pancakes! Pancakes!--that we never learn to respect.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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