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when someone says they’re going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.
even the greatest storms begin as gentle breezes.
People find buried money in books and movies, but not in real life.
Home is the place that when you go there, they have to take you in,
you couldn’t tell if a novel was good from just a single page, could you?
if you didn’t have hopes and ambitions when you were a teenager, you’d be pretty much fucked later on.
I will not waste it arguing about the merits of this short story or that poem. Why would I, when all such opinions are subjective, and no final resolution can ever be reached?’
Arguing Over subjective stuff
opinions are like assholes: everybody has one.’
‘There’s nothing I like better than a good book discussion with someone who can hold up his end of the argument.
Sex wasn’t all women thought about when they thought about men; sex wasn’t romance.
For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers – not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That’s how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That’s what I think! That’s what I FEEL!
‘You needn’t raise your voice, Morris. You needn’t roar. You can defend your position without doing that.’
A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees. A good novelist realizes he is a secretary, not God.’
most of us become everyone.
We all grow
Shit don’t mean shit.
Shit don't mean shit
Books were escape. Books were freedom.
once a pretentious asshole, always a pretentious asshole.
‘One must not grasp what one cannot hold,’
Confession may or may not be good for the soul, but it’s undoubtedly soothing to the nerves.
A man is the sum of his experiences.
They say half a loaf is better than none, Jimmy, but in a world of want, even a single slice is better than none.
If you look like you belong in a place, most people think you do.
No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges’s opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat.
Hodges ambles down the hall toward Room 217,
Room 217 is a reference to the shining. Overlook Hotel room 217
an old wolf is a crafty wolf,
problems come in bunches.
Tell me about it aargh
EDUCATION IS THE LAMP OF LIFE.
sometimes even the intelligent ones say too much. If you let them.
sometimes life does imitate art.’
