Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction — but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

Tom McCarthy
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people. - Albert Camus

  2. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. - Brian Tracy

  3. Love is the only future God offers. - Victor Hugo

  4. Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. - Jonathan Safran Foer

  5. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past. - Chuck Palahniuk

More Quotes By Tom McCarthy
  1. If people were to tell other people everything about themselves, we’d live in a dull world.

  2. People need foundation myths, some imprint of year zero, a bolt that secures the scaffolding that in turn holds fast the entire architecture of reality, of time: memory-chambers and oblivion-cellars, walls between eras, hallways that sweep us on towards the end-days and the coming whatever-it-is....

  3. Everything, as Peyman said, may be a fiction — but the Future is the biggest shaggy-dog story of all.

  4. It’s about the possibility, or otherwise, of meaning in the world. And the possibility, or otherwise, of writing. And the possibility, or otherwise, of the resolution of everything into some coherent, cogent vision.

  5. It’s very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that’s something that resonates for me.

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