Day life Quote by Ben Fountain

““Let me just say, we call Iraq the abnormal normal, 'cause over there the weirdest stuff is just everyday life.””

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“Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom’s death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his…

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“Without ever exactly putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is standard trajectory. Something new appears in the world—a baby,…

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“But I am scared. Everybody's scared." "You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went to begin…

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“God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.”

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“What he'd like to say is that he's lived it, if not the entire breadth and depth of the Christian faith then certainly the…

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By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

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I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little…

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“I think sometimes nothing is better than something. I mean, I’d rather have nothing than let this guy use me like his bitch.”

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“No it was my choice. It's what I wanted to do. And I knew they'd probably send me to Iraq. It's not like anybody…

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It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

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“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he's come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.”

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