Ben Dolnick Quotes
A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative.
Ben Dolnick
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
Yani Tseng
Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
Jack Dempsey
Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
Natasha Trethewey
Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking
I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
Daniel Barenboim
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
Jack Carroll
My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.
Matthew Perry
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
Plato
When you're prepared, and you do the best you can do, and you put it out there on the floor, you've just got to live with the results.
Tyronn Lue
It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
A novel quite possibly won't be good and, even more possibly, will have not-good parts, but at least it won't shape-shift on you; at least you can say that you're halfway through and know that this maps onto some clear, visualizable chunk of narrative.
Ben Dolnick