Geoffrey Wolff Quotes

#1. In 1907 Edmund Gosse thought he had to leave his father to become himself; seventy years later Geoffrey Wolff knows he cannot leave his father because he has become his father.

Vivian Gornick

#2. Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood ... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

Padraig Pearse

#3. I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Peter Zumthor

#4. To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Geoffrey Wolff

#5. Smartass Disciple: Master, can you trust this bank to keep your money safe?
Master of Stupidity: Well, I can put a bit less distrust on this bank than others.

Toba Beta

#6. Bear was as beautiful as he was hard. He was as complex as he was simple. He was both the storm and the calm. The fear and the solace. The rage and the peace.
My life and my love.

T.M. Frazier

#7. We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Geoffrey Wolff

#8. Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.

Geoffrey Wolff

#9. answered the phone: "My

Geoffrey Wolff

#10. When they're together, it's like putting a hurricane and a tornado in the same room - you can feel the tension. I didn't believe in the cliche of soul mates until I saw them together.

Tarryn Fisher

#11. No cheap tricks.

Geoffrey Wolff

#12. So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

Susan B. Anthony

#13. My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize.

Mike Honda

#14. Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

John W. Snow

#15. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

Raymond Chandler

#16. Governments are committed to preserving the myth of their monopoly on violence. Violence belongs to everyone.

Bryant McGill

#17. I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

Frances Farmer

#18. What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Bruce Barton

#19. On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

Geoffrey Wolff

#20. Knowing this to be a worthless life to live, why do I keep living on? Because this life contains something called beauty7.

Kafu Nagai

#21. An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

Geoffrey Wolff

#22. My last semester at Vassar, I'd taken to wearing nunchakus in a strap-on holster and carrying around a samurai sword - that should tell you all you need to know.

Anthony Bourdain