Killings Andre Dubus Quotes & Sayings

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle. — Jean Genet

I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people. — Karla Souza

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M.H. Abrams

I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious. — Guy Ritchie

No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, "as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions." — Charles James Fox

One sometimes clings tightly to pain, to bitter home-sickness and bitter regret, but one forgets one's guilt; in vain, you might think back to the beginning (who led me this far?). If only you were allowed to accuse once more, turn to others once more, love once more! You plunge into the wide, ocean-like hallucination, you have faith and pray, and forget your dark fear when you gaze into the face of your beloved. But how should one fight it? — Annemarie Schwarzenbach

that anxiety has at its core disquietude caused by ambiguity and a strong inclination toward problem solving. When — Kelly G. Wilson

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion — Dan Simmons

In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God. Without science, everything is a miracle. With science, there remains the possibility that nothing is. Religious belief in this case becomes less and less necessary, and also less and less relevant. — Lawrence M. Krauss

I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified. — Shia Labeouf

Certain places in the natural world still possess a strange, perhaps spiritual charge, which we can sense almost immediately. — Jane Hope

Magnus did not have enormous respect for the Law, but if he was breaking it he wanted to look good doing it. — Cassandra Clare

How often when we are comfortable, we begin to long for something new! — Jacob Grimm

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist. — Natsuo Kirino