Happy Playgrounds Minerva Quotes

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

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

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

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

mead for my men! ~ 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

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

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

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. ~ Mark Leyner

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

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

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

we mistake induction for generation. ~ Richard Farina

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song. ~ Ella Henderson

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff. ~ Elton John