Russell Louie Gordon > Russell's Quotes

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.”
― Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“The dead are notoriously hard to satisfy,”
― Jack Spicer

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
― Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons

“This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.”
― Robertson Davies, The Deptford Trilogy

“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom.
We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“One avoids becoming a Tolkien clone precisely by returning to the same roots that inspired The Lord of the Rings.”
― Michael Moorcock, Elric: The Stealer of Souls