North america Quote by Chuck Klosterman

“Somehow he had catapulted himself beyond the world's value system. But this very fact lay upon him an awesome responsibility to maintain the illusions…

— E.L. Doctorow

“I wondered then: what was it that started a person sinking? Was that long fall in him (or her) from the start, in us…

— James Sallis

“The huge sadness of the northern plains rolled down on him and There was some open space between what he knew and what he…

— Annie Proulx

“If he had been a man with strength of purpose to face those troubles and fight them, he might have broken the net that…

— Charles Dickens

“Around every corner, he found himself faced with another dark recess of the human condition, and the struggles people had experienced. It showed him…

— Bella Forrest

“It showed him how people continued to endure, even in the hardest circumstances imaginable, when everything else had been taken away. The world either…

— Bella Forrest

“He lay on the bed and he felt he might never rise from it. He lay in an enormous torpor. The world was too…

— William Gay

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— Haruki Murakami

“maybe he fought it off and forgot about it, and he wasn’t afraid, because he knew he’d never carry it out. Right, but now,…

— Stanisław Lem

“...he lived with the consequences of self discovery and i suspected this was a more exacting hardship than anything the world might have worked…

— Don Dellilo

“It was kind of tragic, I reflected, that we all spent our lives working but never really got good at our work, or even…

— Hope Jahren

“And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world,…

— Jonathan Franzen