Top 48 Kevin Wilson Quotes

#1. It was hard to see where he was going, and he was careful not to damage the camera, so expensive that his father made him name it (Carl), so he would treat it more carefully.

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#2. Buster closed his eyes, held his breath, and, before he realized that the gun had been fired, a gust of heat and wind passed over him and deconstructed the beer can atop his head, the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new.

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#3. He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.

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#4. She could not smash anything without breaking herself.

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#5. Great art is difficult," Caleb said. After a few moments, he said, "But I don't understand why it has to be so difficult sometimes.

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#6. Annie took another sip of the vodka, letting the alcohol seep through her system, turning bad ideas into good ones.

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#7. If I can't find something on this plate to eat, that's my fault," she replied.

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#8. She's got a way of making a man feel guilty for certain things he'd never feel bad about on his own, like watching someone shoot himself in the face.

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#9. His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would be mystified to discover.

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#10. It had all been fake, a choreographed event, but they could not escape the dread that rattled inside their chests. It was a testament to their proficiency and talent as artists. They had affected themselves with the authenticity of the moment.

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#11. Again,' he said and, without waiting for an answer, ran into the growing dark without fear, every single part of his body overwhelmed with the task of being alive.

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#12. He would teach himself to dislike what he actually liked, to approve of what he did not totally understand, in the hopes that he would come out the other side with something that resembled inspiration, something that would make him more famous than Chris Burden or even Hobart Waxman.

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#13. [S]he found it impossible to move, the weight of her failure keeping her anchored to the sofa.

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#14. It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

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#15. They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something up and watch all the tiny pieces resettle around them like falling snow.

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#16. I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film.

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#17. What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.

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#18. Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art.

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#19. These weird thoughts come into my head, and I don't even really want to think about it, but I can't let go of it until I take it as far as I can, until I reach some kind of ending, and then I can move on. That's what writing is like for me.

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#20. The most likely victim of spontaneous human combustion is a solitary woman, 75 percent of all known cases of SHC are women. I tell her that some people believe that arsonist poltergeists are to blame, that the spirits of firestarters roam the cities setting souls on fire.

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#21. Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

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#22. The toxicity of love coupled with pain can erode even the strongest heart.

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#23. But do you enjoy it?" Annie asked. Raven stared at Annie's reflection in the mirror. "I don't hate it," Raven said. "You spend enough time with anything, that's all you can really ask for.

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#24. Art, if you loved it, was worth any amount of unhappiness and pain. If you had to hurt someone to achieve those ends, so be it. If the outcome was beautiful enough, strange enough, memorable enough, it did not matter. It was worth it.

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#25. I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

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#26. I don't know if it's good or bad, but when I first started writing I imitated the narrative thrust of a movie. And as I worked, I learned what you can do in fiction that you can't do in movies, and vice-versa.

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#27. ...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster; you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

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#28. Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes," their father told them. "Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.

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#29. She is prettier than her picture had prepared me for, blond curls, big blue eyes, like a fake child that someone would make in order to convince people to have children.

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#30. Wyoming, to Annie, was represented by a blank, bleak space in her imagination. It was a place she could hide. The worst that could happen would be that she would sleep with Daniel and then get eaten by a wolf. She could live with that.

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#31. What do you think I'm going to do?" she asked him.
"Whatever it is," he answered, "I think you'll be terrified when it happens. Don't let that stop you.

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#32. The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

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#33. Up to this point, all I knew were beaten paths, tattooed with footprints, and I had come to the understanding that they were not much fun to travel because so many people were waiting for you at the end, wondering what took you so long.

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#34. When I come back, we'll pretend like this never happened. We'll head to Wyoming and get back to what we do best.' Annie had no idea what it was that they did best; the two of them together seemed below average in all categories.

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#35. When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.

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#36. I have a kind of unhealthy obsession with movies.

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#37. Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

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#38. Don't you see? The things we once loved do not change, only our belief in them ... You are left with the only things that any of us have in the end. The things we keep inside of ourselves, that grow out of us, that tell us who we are.

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#39. Annie, no stranger to disappointment, felt the hope break down inside her body and disperse without any lingering effects.

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#40. I don't think I can keep looking at this stuff, Buster," she informed him, handing the camera to her brother. "It makes me want to drink either more alcohol or none, and I can't imagine either possibility.

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#41. That does not surprise me,' Annie said and once again hung up the phone thinking that she had chosen to surround herself with people who were, for lack of a better term, retarded.

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#42. Buster admired the skill, loved any action that seemed to be purely muscle memory, disconnected from the brain, which was something he could hardly fathom. His brain always interrupted the actions of his body, interjecting questions and concerns.

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#43. I understand that art is a necessary component of a civilized society, but you cannot just go around shooting people. That's going to be a problem.

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#44. Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.

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#45. My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it ... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.

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#46. Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.

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#47. Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

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#48. I don't know what I'm saying, really, but I guess it's like having a kid, though I don't have any kids. It's yours, you made it, and no matter what happens, you have that pride of ownership. You love it, even it it didn't amount to much.

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