Happy Playgrounds David Grun Quotes

we mistake induction for generation. ~ Richard Farina

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

they are mystified by certain instances. ~ William Carlos Williams

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

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them. ~ David Stern

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. ~ Mark Leyner

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

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

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

mead for my men! ~ Donald Barthelme

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means of Hilbert's program. Here one regards mathematics as a formal game and one is only concerned with the question of consistency ... The Realist position is probably the one which most mathematicians would prefer to take. It is not until he becomes aware of some of the difficulties in set theory that he would even begin to question it. If these difficulties particularly upset him, he will rush to the shelter of Formalism, while his normal position will be somewhere between the two, trying to enjoy the best of two worlds. ~ Paul Cohen

The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well ... ~ Susan Sutherland Isaacs

As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition. ~ Josef Pieper

Never in my life had I been so happy. Nothing could go wrong, everything was happening my way, all the doors were clicking open one by one, and life couldn't have been more radiant: it was shining right at me, and when I turned my bike left or right, or tried to move away from its light, it followed me as limelight follows an actor onstage. I craved him but I could just as easily live without him, and either way was fine. ~ Andre Aciman

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career. ~ Tim Curry

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. ~ David Lynch

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be. ~ Dan Quayle

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck. ~ Peter Farrelly