Prep Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes & Sayings

not that man presume to look for the mercy of God who offends His holy Mother. — St. Louis De Montfort

The boarding school memoir or novel is an enduring literary subgenre, from 1950s classics such as The Catcher in the Rye to Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep. Doust's recognisably Australian contribution to the genre draws on his own experiences in a West Australian boarding school in this clever, polished, detail-rich debut novel. From the opening pages, the reader is wholly transported into the head of Jack Muir, a sensitive, sharp-eyed boy from small-town WA who is constantly measured (unfavourably) against his goldenboy brother. The distinctive, masterfully inhabited adolescent narrator recalls the narrator in darkly funny coming-of-age memoir Hoi Polloi (Craig Sherborne) - as does the juxtaposition of stark naivety and carefully mined knowingness.' - Bookseller+Publisher — Jon Doust

There can be little doubt that man owes some of his greatest successes in the past to the fact that he has not been able to control social life. His continued advance may well depend on his deliberately refraining from exercising controls which are now in his power. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person. — Jerry Della Femina

It struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of something than the thing itself. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The sorry truth is you can walk your feet to blisters, walk till kingdom-com, and you never will outpace your grief. — Sue Monk Kidd

Satan is so deceptive! He likes to borrow Christian vocabulary, but he does not use the Christian dictionary! — Warren W. Wiersbe

I think because I'm 6'4 and have blond hair and I didn't dress like any other kind of a boy, people just immediately thought I was some kind of circus animal. — Patrick Wolf

Every praying person, every person who has an encounter with God, must have a passionate concern for his or her brother and sister, his or her neighbor. To treat any of these as if he were less than the child of God is to deny the validity of one's spiritual existence. — Desmond Tutu

Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was doing in my neighborhood and log it down. — Heather Brooke

The first impression is the truth, and all that follows is merely the excuse of memory. — Andrew Crumey