Cutting Quote by Jon Krakauer

“He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At…

— Jon Krakauer

He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw…

— Jack London

“Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at a very…

— Alice Miller

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now…

— Jon Krakauer

Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless…

— Jonathan Franzen

His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view…

— Ashim Shanker

“He lay there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew…

— A.M. Homes

“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

“He sat there among them, listened to the buzz of their conversation. He was captivated by them. In that racket every voice touched a…

— Deszö Kosztolányi

He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He…

— Mervyn Peake