"I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure."

-- Jonathan Franzen

#Believe Quotes #Serious Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Silences can be as different as sounds.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”
“There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.”
“There is this cat and mouse game that plays out over time where our team comes up with new and interesting ideas to identify content that we shouldn't recommend, and over time people are constantly probing that, trying to figure out how can they get around that and get a better reputation on Yelp.”
“Life is too short to remain unnoticed”
“I think the more people you add on stage, the more locked it things become. Whereas fewer members on stage gets the audience to notice any small idiosyncrasy or unique moment that one of the three people onstage is having. It also means that mistakes are accentuated, but to good affect generally if you are that type of band.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.”
“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those thingsâ€”a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earringâ€”with immense, even startling power.”

Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories”, p.25, Vintage
“The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.”

Source : Jeffrey Tucker's Facebook post, www.facebook.com. May 24, 2013.

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