Quote by Gary Lutz Download Open image ““I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.”” — Gary Lutz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.” — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Abstraction can be a powerful tool, but it can also lead to heads buried in the sand. In” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
“We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“I’m trying now to exaggerate the essence of things, and to deliberately leave vague what’s obvious.” — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“It's difficult to move beyond nasty feelings if you keep reinventing new ones.” — Catherine Garrett Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can’t be explained.” — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
“It is human nature to concoct explanations to fill the great void of the unknown.” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
“We live in a cluttered world of too much information and too much stuff.” — James Wallman Copy Share Image
“You don’t need to dig into unnecessary things and overwhelm yourself with information that doesn’t matter. It only makes you confused and worried.” — Vishal Ostwal Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.” — Robert C. Martin Copy Share Image
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for -… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Most days what I felt was this: the minute you put a first name and a last name together, you've got a pair of… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
