Exit West Quotes

#1. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.

Scott Adams

#2. Ever'body's askin' that. "What we comin' to?" Seems to me we don't never come to nothin'. Always on the way.

John Steinbeck

#3. I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

Tove Styrke

#4. God forgives those who invent what they need.

Lillian Hellman

#5. Do not worry. Try to appear jolly and unconcerned. I have smiled often with the bases full with two strikes and three balls on the batter. This seems to unnerve.

Rube Foster

#6. She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases.

Robin Hobb

#7. In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

Ben Lerner

#8. The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.

Jim George

#9. June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Marie Lu

#10. I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

Bill Gates

#11. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Eduardo Saverin