Ordinary man Quote by Michael Chabon

“The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it aside by day, but it poisoned his dreams…

— David Weber

“Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there…

— Charles Dickens

“But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision…

— Cormac McCarthy

“...and he would have also to endure his book like a form of fatigue, to accept it like a discipline, build it up like…

— Marcel Proust

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

“Every man hangs by a thread, any minute the abyss may open under his feet, and yet he must go and invent for himself…

— Ivan Turgenev

“Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up…

— Haruki Murakami

“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No…

— Shilpa Agarwal

“He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always…

— Jack London

“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.”

— Yasunari Kawabata

“All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an…

— Walker Percy

“He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the…

— Lawrence Durrell