T. C. Boyle Quotes

In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

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• I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Think
  • Age
  • Science

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Country
  • Together

• I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Devil

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • You
  • Learning

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Like
  • Marvel

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Heroine
  • Patti Smith

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • World
  • Love
  • Friendship

• My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Character
  • Space
  • Study

• Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Important
  • Children
  • Love

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Smart
  • Fighter

• Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Magic

• Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Normal

• In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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