Exiles Book Quotes & Sayings

Sex isn't priceless."
"It was with you. — Tiffany Reisz

In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people's consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas. — Guillaume Faye

In hard times, or even presuccess times, society and at least one cartoonist want you to take care of yourself first. If you pursue your selfish objectives, and you do it well, someday your focus will turn outward. — Scott Adams

It had been a humdrum couple of days, reaffirming his belief in reincarnation: everything was so boring that this could not be the first time he'd experienced it. — Colson Whitehead

I had no respect whatsoever for the creative works of either the painter or the novelist. I thought Karabekian with his meaningless pictures had entered into a conspiracy with millionaires to make poor people feel stupid. I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Kurt Vonnegut

In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy. A cross-channel ferry, with its overfilled ashtrays and vomiting children, is as good a place as any to reflect on the angel who stands with a flaming sword in front of the gateway to all our yesterdays. — John Lanchester

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do. — Alice Hoffman

I don't know what's happened to you. You used to be such a nice girl. Now you've gone all stabby and whatnot. — Devon Monk

When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter! — Brigette Foresman

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works. — Steve Nash

There's more to life then living, so hold on. — Todd Strasser

My impulse now, as then, is to disagree. The majority of people in this country who haunt bookstores, go to readings and book festivals or simply read in the privacy of their homes are not traumatized exiles. — Azar Nafisi

But I had long since learned from Wolfe that the corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to. — Rex Stout

Barron's kindness was like a curse, because she knew she had done nothing to deserve it. — V.E Schwab

If it ain't broke, you can probably still fix it. — Tim Allen