Cucine Lube Quotes & Sayings

I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical or worse - and so the books lived in stacks, some as tall as me, in the most subjective order I could invent.
Thus Nabokov lived between Gogol and Hemingway, cradled between the Old World and the New; Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser and Thomas Hardy were stacked together not for their chronological proximity but because they all reminded me in some way of dryness (though in Dreiser's case I think I was focused mainly on his name): George Eliot and Jane Austen shared a stack with Thackeray because all I had of his was Vanity Fair, and I thought that Becky Sharp would do best in the presence of ladies (and deep down I worried that if I put her next to David Copperfield, she might seduce him). — Rebecca Makkai

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount. — Haruki Murakami

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret. — Dalai Lama

Between the way things used to be and the way they were now was a void that couldn't be crossed. — William Maxwell

We can understand only too well how it was that the Israelite people of old, and the Jewish people of Jesus's day, could very easily forget that their national dream and God's purposes for them might actually be two quite different things. The prophets existed to remind them of the fact; but prophets were easy to ignore or forget. Or kill. — N. T. Wright

Live in the nowhere that you come from
even though you have got an address Here. — Rumi