Book Quote by Jerry Stahl Download Open image ““This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.”” — Jerry Stahl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Fitness
“We expend more effort in trying to forget memories than in trying to create them.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the half-unconscious memories it brings back.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books…” — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever really escapes memory, and even the things we forget often are condemned to it.” — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“read this?" I asked. "Not that one, but like I said... I tried to prepare for this. We aren't doing this again. This one… — L.A. Starkey Copy Share Image
“It is a truth universally unacknowledged that when the dead are trying to remember something, the living are trying harder to forget it.” — Jess Kidd Copy Share Image
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Sometimes lost in a book, you forget which is the real world and which is fiction.” — Gurnam Singh Sodhi Copy Share Image
“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger. — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone's going broke… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“...with enough rock in your system, you could hear every noise in the universe.” — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
“There are stories you don't want to tell, and there are stories that scald your brainpan right down to the tongue at the mere… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
