Faltrain Quotes & Sayings

Writing a novel mimics what we bring to our journey of life. God is the great editor who purges the faulty, the awkward, and all the bits that are just plain wrong, so the optimal story can finally emerge. — Denise M. Baran-Unland

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons ... No friends ... No hope. Take all that away ... and what's left? Buffy: Me. — Joss Whedon

That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. — William Shakespeare

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots. — Charles Farrar Browne

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult, — Barry Eichengreen

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that. — Michael Novak

In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that. — Cara Delevingne

When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped. — Stephen Vincent Benet

bullshit french post-war rationalizing — Woody Allen

The various causes of ease or strain have interchangeable effects. When you are in a state of cognitive ease, you are probably in a good mood, like what you see, believe what you hear, trust your intuition, and feel that the current situation is comfortably familiar. You are also likely to be relatively casual and superficial in your thinking. When you feel strained, you are more likely to be vigilant and suspicious, invest more effort in what you are doing, feel less comfortable, and make fewer errors, but you also are less intuitive and less creative as usual. — Daniel Kahneman

The symmetries of immanence are cruel. — George Steiner

Have you ever done something that you were really ashamed of? I mean somehing so bad you felt sick just thinking about it?'
'Everyone has. Why, what'd you do?'
'I didn't say goodbye to Mum.'
'That's not so bad.'
'Did you say goodbye to your mum before she left?' I'd never asked Martin about this before. I didn't want to hear the answer.
'She left before I had a chance.'
'Oh.'
'That's what I like about you, Faltrain.You always know just what to say. — Cath Crowley

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way. — Tim Burton

What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal. — B.J. Novak

I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader. — Alexis Arquette

Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak. — Kiera Cass