Downdraft Quotes & Sayings

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with men from the Garden District while I was passed out in a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain, the downdraft of U.S. Army helicopters flattening a plain of elephant grass in my dreams. — James Lee Burke

The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object. — Charles Bernheimer

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can. — Anne Michaels

There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, which must have cost many a smile to the intending romancer who was keen about his work. It appears to me as little to the point as the equally celebrated distinction between the novel and the romance- to answer as little to any reality. There are bad novels and good novels, as there are bad pictures and good pictures; but that is the only distinction in which I see any meaning, and I can as little imagine speaking of a novel of character as I can imagine speaking of a picture of character. When one says picture, one says of character, when one says novel, one says of incident, and the terms may be transposed. What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? What is a picture or a novel that is not of character? What else do we seek in it and find in it? — Henry James

In all of time, all of space, there will only be one you. How can you be anything but perfect? As you are. Mad, sad, glad. You are amazing. — Cindy Marcus

A girl needs to be able to dream, you know ? — Nicholas Sparks

Every now and then a perverse downdraft would make the smoke whirl and puff toward him and he breathed some of it in.
It built dreams in the same way that a small irritant may build a pearl in an oyster. — Stephen King

There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj