Life Quote by John Marrs

“Kafka, in everybody's life there's a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can't go forward anymore.…

— Haruki Murakami

“It seems absurd for a man of twenty-eight to renounce the pleasures of life, doing violence to his nature by a pure act of…

— Reiner Stach

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

“Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments.…

— Guy Davenport

“Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes…

— Garry Wills

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I…

— Alan Lightman

“JFK's great virtue, and the essential difference between him and George W. Bush, was that he had an instinctive appreciation for the chaotic forces…

— Michael Dobbs

“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” —JOHN F. KENNEDY”

— Brad Thor

“There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what…

— Al Gini

“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle: That our endless and…

— David Foster Wallace

“It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally…

— Jonathan Franzen

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose…

— David Foster Wallace