Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure....
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Graham Greene
Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.
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Woody Allen
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight andunderstanding.
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Marshall McLuhan
Those who understand will understand.
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Wayne Gerard Trotman
Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength
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Jonathan Star
More Quotes By Jess Walter
We live in a world of banal miracles.
All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, motivation, history, and character-what we believe-none of it is real; it's all part of the story we tell.
He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
