Jannoune Quotes & Sayings

He was my first favorite mistake. — Lauren Blakely

His prime resource is the leaky vessel of is own memory. At times he views it thus, quite literally- as some old pail with holes and rusted seams. Alternatively, he imagines an extensive manuscript of which there survive only a handful of charred fragments; it is like trying to piece together the Gospels from the Dead Sea Scrolls ... — Penelope Lively

In war and in peace, a good enemy can be more valuable than a good ally. — James Clavell

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide. — Jean Genet

What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend. — Dianne Wiest

I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop. — John Podhoretz

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories. — Avi

The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water. — Langston Hughes