Frattalinos Quotes & Sayings

My dad played fiddle as well. — Robert Plant

The world was ersatz and actual, forged and faked, by ourselves and unseen others. Daring to attempt to absolutely sort fake from real was a folly that would call down tigers or hiccups to cure us of our recklessness. The effort was doomed, for it too much pointed past the intimate boundaries of our necessary fictions. — Jonathan Lethem

If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual. — Sun Tzu

I pulled out too late with her," he said simply.
Vaughn nearly dropped his glass. "Oh, fuck. Brooke's pregnant?"
"Whoa, there. No. Nobody's pregnant. I meant that I pulled out of the relationship too late. — Julie James

Popular literature now depends more than ever on the wishes of the audience, not the creativity of the artist. — Neil Postman

Their faith was based on such a strong personal experience of the dead and risen Christ that they feared nothing and no one, and even saw persecution as a cause of honor that enabled them to follow in Jesus' footsteps and to be like him, witnessing with their life. — Pope Francis

If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong. — L. Frank Baum

Perfection is God; simplicity is perfection. The curse of curses is that men will not let truths like these alone. — Lew Wallace

I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death. — Anthony Marra