Ben Fountain Quotes
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to focus on your own game and try and win the match whatever way you can.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my befuzzed state of confusion and low-grade depression, I set out more or systematically to read writers who'd grappled with that fundamental question of what America is, why it is the way it is.
