Magnussen Home Quotes & Sayings

Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven't the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren't worth a goddamned thing. — Patrick DeWitt

We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and what is merely cultural scrap. In such a society, we don't have the experience of contemplative space, of the time or mood to engage a book of poetry or even read a novel. Who can achieve the unconscious-conscious state of the reader when everything is stimulation, everything is movement and information? — T.C. Boyle

We seemed to possess a similar worldview: slightly jaded, fiercely independent ... — Douglas Kennedy

We just have to go out there and play and take one game at a time. We have to know everybody will play the best game they can. — Maurice Hall

It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance. — Wallace D. Wattles