Ben Lerner Quotes
I came to realize that far more important to me than any plot or conventional sense was the sheer directionality I felt while reading prose, the texture of time as it passed, life's white machine.
Ben Lerner
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Ethical control may survive in small groups, but the control of the population as a whole must be delegated to specialists-to police, priests, owners, teachers, therapists, and so on, with their specialized reinforcers and their codified contingencies.
B. F. Skinner
Laughter always forgives.
Martin Amis
I hate to ask about the title, because it makes it seem like that is all I've read of the book.
Anderson Cooper
Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
Lurlene McDaniel
Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.
Conan O'Brien
Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.
Suga
BTS
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
Jack Roy
I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.
Jim Gaffigan
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
Nell Leyshon
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
Walter Savage Landor
