Matakevich Quotes & Sayings

Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does. — Mark Pesce

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are. — Philip Roth

I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given. — Tom Drury

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this. — Breyten Breytenbach

With foxes we must play the fox. — Thomas Fuller

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds — Ahmad Ibn ?Ajiba

Live a passionate life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Money is wasted on the rich. — Gillian Flynn

Night, the inevitable reward of men's faithful labors on this earth ... — Joseph Conrad