"Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like……" — Jess Walter
"Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is."
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38 Quotes by Jess Walter
Jess Walter has 38 quotes on this site.
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You have to do disappointment twice.
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All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history,…
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At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think…
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a…
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Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already…
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If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.
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What business does memory have with time?
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Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for…
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Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space…
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A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his…
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Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but…
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
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As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.
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I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were…
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To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping…
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I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I…
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed…
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