The Fracking King Quotes

“Three-way Scrabble is about as boring as I’d imagine a ménage à trois to be—the clutter, the awkwardness, how hard it is to concentrate—so”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“Maybe it’s true that an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. But you’d go mad reading all of their rough drafts,”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“it’s like I have two kinds of students now. Kids who write their homework and thought papers on their phones. Kids who just sound like they do.”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“politics is show business for the ugly?”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“State politics is show business for ugly people who can’t remember their lines.”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“He made us write papers without using “good,” “bad,” “very,” “like,” or any form of “to be,” and it was the native speakers who found this impossible—“is” slipped out no matter how hard we tried to stop it—and many of us failed these assignments.”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“What?” Mr. U slumped in his chair, his coffee cup tipping and the drops of coffee”
― James Browning, The Fracking King

“Neither of them asked what I’d done over winter break, except to say that I looked thin. While I hoped this was because they each knew where I’d been the whole time, and didn’t necessarily want the other one to know, I think the real reason was that they just didn’t care.”
― James Browning, The Fracking King