Tarasenko Contract Quotes & Sayings

Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery. — Lynn Freed

I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in. — Lesley Manville

Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was this that seemed so senseless and incomprehensible to him, because it was life itself. All his lief Alexei Alexandrovich had lived and worked in spheres of services that dealt with reflections of life. And each time he had encountered life itself, he had drawn back from it. Now he experienced a feeling similar to what a man would feel who was calmly walking across a bridge over an abyss and suddenly saw that the bridge had been taken down and below him was the bottomless deep. This bottomless deep was life itself, the bridge the artificial life that Alexei Alexandrovich had lived. — Leo Tolstoy

The end of a day on which a life has ended is still far from being the end of days. — Jenny Erpenbeck

Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed? — Walter Sickert

He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew angry at writers for writing them. He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. — Tobias Wolff

I wanted to lie in bed with her at night, and bemoan the ordeal of planning a wedding. I wanted it all. — Christina Lauren

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him. — Vance Havner

Fetishes ... they're the pet you feed or the beast that eats you. We'll feed your beast until it's tamed. — Tiffany Reisz

I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it. — Rainbow Rowell

Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit! — Stephen Baxter

This is of unspeakable importance. Please send any books on the structure of the human heart that I have not read — J.D. Salinger

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity. — Anthony Giddens