13 Quotes & Sayings By Adam Levin

Adam Levin is the bestselling author of The Christmas Wish and The Christmas Wish: A Novel, as well as the acclaimed books Shop Class as Soulcraft and the upcoming The Dos and Don’ts of Selling. He lives in New York City and is a Distinguished Professor of business at New York University.

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Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth. Adam Levin
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Don't you feel as though you could love everything starting tomorrow, and everything could love you, if only you took an action to set into motion the coming of our new tomorrow and its tomorrow and that one's tomorrow? Shotgun loaded hand on the pump and no matter who you damage you're still a false prophet, but we drink chocolate milk and then we get muscles and smash down the droves with fists like hammers and then we pump the fists in the air for victory. I be the prophet of the doom that is you. You are the mess in messiah. Adam Levin
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I feel like a millionaire on the back of an armored jet-ski my samurai girlfriend who loves me is charging at a cartel speedboat to win a game of chicken. Isn’t this the day’s best part? You don’t even have to remember to enjoy it. It enjoys you into itself. Adam Levin
The point was to learn what it was we feared...
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The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. Adam Levin
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Without pain, there is no call for anger, much less rampaging. Adam Levin
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Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice? Adam Levin
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There’d be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we’d die unstoried deaths. Adam Levin
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Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety. Adam Levin
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You can render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but if you don't keep from Caesar that which is yours, Caesar will take some, and than take some more, and if you don't put a stop to it, though you won't lose everything - you can't lose everything; there's things he can't take, at least one or two - a time will soon come when you'll think you've lost everything, when you'll think all is Caesar's, and by then you'll be too weak to take what's yours back, too tired to remember what was yours to begin with, and you'll end up, perversely, scheming for his leavings and, even more perversely, grateful when you get them. Adam Levin
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It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats. Adam Levin
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...I might mention my belief that girls who like Woody Allen movies are nicer girls than girls who don't... Adam Levin
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If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see. Adam Levin