Man Repeller Book Quotes & Sayings

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story) — Scott Westerfeld

You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average. — Eric Thomas

Societies that value excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship and integrity do well. If we want India to be rich, we have to value excellence and honesty first. This is where a reset, a re-prioritization of something very core to society is required. This core is our values. — Chetan Bhagat

Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity. — Pope John Paul I

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
— Clarice Lispector

I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling. — Paul Theroux

Let's state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway. — Richard Rohr

The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. — Maria Montessori

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out. — Maurice Gibb

I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good. — Sandra Cisneros

I've waited a long time for this," Penny said. "Then this is going to be kind of an anticlimax," Alice said, and she punched him in the face. Boom! Oh my God. It was beautiful, just like in a movie: straight from the shoulder, feet planted, hips rolled, follow-through, the works. Penny never saw it coming. — Lev Grossman

Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color
the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness
but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood. — Lauren Oliver

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility. — Chandrashekar