Life Quote by Richard Flanagan

“At Times, even he admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it, and in moments of painful…

— Nicholas Sparks

“His first—and worst—mistake was blindly doing what he was told to do. Without questioning their methods or their motives, he allowed politicians to make…

— Tom Robbins

“He could even be grateful in a sense that he had no particular area of interest: in avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific…

— Richard Yates

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

— Douglas Adams

“At that moment he understood, far better than he had before when he studied their histories and their political structures before he arrived, what…

— Sean DeLauder

“He took no interest in politics, which ruin the character and career, yet nothing can be achieved without them.”

— E.M. Forster

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell

“he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.”

— Michael Wolff

“[He] didn't view the less idyllic chapters of his life as the results of "mistakes." He didn't believe in mistakes. He believed in a…

— Lisa Jewell

“But grownups were always in a turmoil, every possible action muddied over by thoughts of the consequences, by self-doubt, by selfimage, by feelings of…

— Stephen King