Nathan > Nathan's Quotes

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
― David Foster Wallace

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
― Jack Kerouac

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein