Cynical-humor Quote by Robert Stone Download Open image ““I’ve been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.”” — Robert Stone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynical-humor Life Whole life
“It's been a long time since you asked me for anything. I'm not going to fuck it up.” — Paula Weston Copy Share Image
“It's totally okay to fuck up. More than okay. It's normal. Our fuck-ups make us who we are, and if we don't accept that...… — Steph Campbell Copy Share Image
“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a time you thought - I am doing this on purpose, I am fucking up and I don't know why.” — A. M. Homes Copy Share Image
I was under the influence of the early modern masters, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck and Hemingway, especially, when I was a kid. I reacted against… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“He had undertaken a little assay at the good fight and found that neither the good nor the fight was left to him .… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“How learned and fine we believed ourselves to be! How shitty of the world to deal with us this way.” — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“There were icons of the Magdalen on the walls and paintings in the Western manner, all kitsch, trash. Mary M., Lucas thought, half hypnotized… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“Sleeping and waking, the notion of being lost, of having wandered out of the right life, kept turning up in different guises. She imagined… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it. — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“He sat desiring the girl - a speed-hardened straw-colored junkie stewardess, a spoiled Augustana Lutheran, compounded of airport Muzak and beauty parlor school. Her… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“If by ‘foe’ you mean a brutal killer, then I suppose I’d fall into the ‘friend’ category,” I replied cynically. “Although in your case,… — M.A. George Copy Share Image
“Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what… — Frederik Pohl Copy Share Image
“Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers… — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“This is some sort of joke, isn't it?" asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields. I cough as lightly and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I would like at this moment to announce that I will be retiring from this program in two weeks' time because of poor ratings.… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
“Our town was known for two things--no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.” — Angela Elwell Hunt Copy Share Image
“The only relatives who remain friends with you throughout life, are most probably but acquaintances, and not your relatives from any side.” — Fakeer Ishavardas Copy Share Image
“Yay! I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where… — Carol Maloney Scott Copy Share Image
“Breslin gives me his wise-teacher smile, which is kind and crinkly and would make me feel warm all over if I was dumber than… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“The law enforcement in this town is terrific. All through prohibition Eddie Mars' place was a night club and they had two uniformed men… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over many millenia; it was the avowedly peaceful… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
