Happy Playgrounds Cora Quotes

Sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt. ~ William Faulkner

they are mystified by certain instances. ~ William Carlos Williams

Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not. ~ Daniel Woodrell

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable. ~ Fernando Pessoa

Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another. ~ William H Gass

Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls. ~ B. Traven

In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador. ~ Padgett Powell

we mistake induction for generation. ~ Richard Farina

we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn. ~ Peter Nadas

Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult. ~ Charles Willeford

The zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different.
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men ~ Padgett Powell

so whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and god. blessed is the man who does not condemn himself by what he approves. ~ Paul From Tarsus

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. ~ Mark Leyner

It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday. ~ William H Gass

it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know. ~ Jim Dodge

Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it. ~ Richard Russo

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days. ~ Jim Dodge

When you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute. ~ Elmore Leonard

Alternate the theories you entertain about all things. ~ Padgett Powell

My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. ~ Pat Conroy

god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word. ~ Richard Farina

Today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything. ~ Padgett Powell

If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one. ~ David Markson

mead for my men! ~ Donald Barthelme

The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world. ~ Padgett Powell

my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures. ~ Peter Nadas

you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years. ~ Jim Dodge

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer ~ James Rollins

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. ~ Donald Barthelme

He never mentioned whether something was fair, however. Fairness itself seemed to hold very little interest for him, which I found fascinating, as people, especially young people, are very interested in what's fair. Fairness is a concept taught to nice children: it is the governing principle of kindergartens and summer camps and playgrounds and soccer fields ... Fairness is for happy people, for people who have been lucky enough to have lived a life defined more by certainties than by ambiguities. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right. ~ William Gay

Do you want me to shoot thee, ingles? ... quieres? it is nothing. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself ~ John Barth

I'd hate to read all these books ... that much reading could put your eyes out. ~ Larry McMurtry

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail. ~ Frederick Lenz

I fear horror became so inextricably related to splatter punk in the late 1980s that a large segment of the audience turned away from it. And thriller became the more comfortable, cozier label because it promised a resolution, a happy ending. Horror came to mean, I'm going to leave your ass out here in the dark with no way to get home. And one of your legs is missing. ~ Christopher Rice

It is not happiness that makes us grateful It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift. … Whatever life gives to you, you can respond with joy. Joy is the happiness that does not depend on what happens. It is the grateful response to the opportunity that life offers you at this moment. ~ David Steindl-Rast