Jess Walter Quotes

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• You have to do disappointment twice.
• All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of…
• At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could…
• I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and…
• Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be…
• If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
• What business does memory have with time?
• Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
• There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America…
• Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what…
• A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do…
• Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our…
• Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and…
• His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.
• Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the…
• I think so, too. I know I felt that way. For years. It was as if I was a character in a movie and the…
• This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.
• And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely…
• He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he…
• He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

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