Ficion Book Quotes & Sayings

The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home. — David Foster Wallace

DREAMS become more meaningful when you work toward them...My dreams are also my GOALS. What about yours? — A. King Bradley

A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked. — Alphonse Karr

Making judgements about other people requires that we understand where they are coming from;their motivations and their fears. Only then can we claim to know them. — Caroline Adhiambo Jakob

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation. — Raoul Vaneigem

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room. — James Fenton

But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics! — Woody Allen

Bad things can happen, and often do
but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages. — James A. Owen