N I V Happy Playgrounds Quotes & Sayings

Don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right. — William Gay

you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing. — Jim Dodge

A reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills. — Fernando Pessoa

Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not. — Daniel Woodrell

If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one. — David Markson

god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word. — Richard Farina

what i really need is a dead man. — Chester Himes

All over the world ... the past was being wiped out by condominiums. — Elmore Leonard

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. — Donald Barthelme

Today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything. — Padgett Powell

The zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different.
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men — Padgett Powell

Don't hesitate to insulate your house, especially the floor. — Padgett Powell

why don't you beat him? — John Steinbeck

He never mentioned whether something was fair, however. Fairness itself seemed to hold very little interest for him, which I found fascinating, as people, especially young people, are very interested in what's fair. Fairness is a concept taught to nice children: it is the governing principle of kindergartens and summer camps and playgrounds and soccer fields ... Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. — Hanya Yanagihara

My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. — Pat Conroy

MADE FOR TELEVISION. — John Irving

Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short. — Harry Crews

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years. — Jim Dodge

In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador. — Padgett Powell

we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn. — Peter Nadas

Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it. — Richard Russo

there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences. — C.J. Box

Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another. — William H Gass

The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world. — Padgett Powell

Sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt. — William Faulkner

Do you want me to shoot thee, ingles? ... quieres? it is nothing. — Ernest Hemingway,

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. — Mark Leyner

they are mystified by certain instances. — William Carlos Williams

Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls. — B. Traven

There's no need for algebra where two and two make five. — Thomas Wolfe