"A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line……" — Chris Ware

"A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have."

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37 Quotes by Chris Ware

Chris Ware has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified…
As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely…
There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not…
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism.…
Every city began as a campsite - pg. 25
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.
It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather…
I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real…
Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I…
I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at…
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if…
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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