Top 34 Gary Lutz Quotes
#1. It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you
the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.
Gary Lutz
#2. Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming.
Gary Lutz
#3. They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes
they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it.
Gary Lutz
#4. When I got started again, I drove slower and felt smaller. I think it does us all good to get looked at like that now and then by a wild animal.
Bailey White
#5. You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.
Gary Lutz
#6. What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life?
Gary Lutz
#7. Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for - a shimmered arm, or parts unknown - is ready, finally, to have itself be handled.
Gary Lutz
#8. The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.
Mitt Romney
#9. A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.
Gary Lutz
#10. The job required the luxurious useless indoor fortitude it has always been my fortune to enjoy.
Gary Lutz
#11. When a locked-room mystery doesn't work, the solution makes you groan, and the book gets hurled across the room.
Adrian McKinty
#13. My writing isn't a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
Gary Lutz
#14. Over and over, all I had done was say, 'There, I've said it,' though it would leave me feeling only exposed, not unmasked.
Gary Lutz
#15. Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years.
It is a book to be memorized.
Gary Lutz
#16. I was a great many far cries from myself.
Gary Lutz
#17. Fact, you could say that Rosa Hubermann had a face decorated with constant fury. That was how the creases were made in the cardboard texture of her complexion.
Markus Zusak
#18. Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.
Gary Lutz
#19. Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#20. I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed
Gary Lutz
#21. All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.
Keith Miller
#22. Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out.
What was wrong was very simple.
Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.
Gary Lutz
#23. Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer
a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.
Gary Lutz
#24. A French traveler with a sore throat is a wonderful thing to behold, but it takes more than tonsillitis to prevent a Frenchman from boasting.
Paul Theroux
#25. I've been within an inch of my life.
Gary Lutz
#26. If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.
Gary Lutz
#27. People always have exaggerated ideas about unfamiliar things'. - Meursault
Albert Camus
#28. While we tend to think of love as some faraway place, it is actually a place nearby that we have forgotten.
Vironika Tugaleva
#29. Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with a sorrowing precision that comforts even as it haunts.
Gary Lutz
#30. From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.
Gary Lutz
#31. You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
Luc De Clapiers
#32. I don't know which is finally sicker
specifics or engulfing abstractions.
Gary Lutz
#33. I never again want to see the face of a starving child or hear the weeping of a mother who has lost her son to war. Peace, this is what my husband gave his life for, and I want the world to know that he did not die in vain. Peace, this is what will make me very happy.
Jehan Sadat
#34. Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
Hans Christian Andersen
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