Top 50 Happy Playgrounds Quotes
#2. most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.
Jim Dodge
#3. Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.
Daniel Woodrell
#4. Alternate the theories you entertain about all things.
Padgett Powell
#5. When you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute.
Elmore Leonard
#6. Don't hesitate to insulate your house, especially the floor.
Padgett Powell
#8. The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
John Barth
#9. My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.
Pat Conroy
#10. Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.
William H Gass
#12. I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents
John Steinbeck
#13. A reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.
Fernando Pessoa
#14. I'd hate to read all these books ... that much reading could put your eyes out.
Larry McMurtry
#15. Don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.
William Gay
#16. fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.
Mark Leyner
#17. Inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.
Fernando Pessoa
#18. A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.
Charles Willeford
#19. Today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.
Padgett Powell
#20. The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
Padgett Powell
#21. Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
Richard Russo
#22. It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
William H Gass
#23. All over the world ... the past was being wiped out by condominiums.
Elmore Leonard
#25. Sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.
William Faulkner
#26. Do you want me to shoot thee, ingles? ... quieres? it is nothing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#27. There's no need for algebra where two and two make five.
Thomas Wolfe
#28. A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.
Elmore Leonard
#29. it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.
Jim Dodge
#31. Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.
B. Traven
#33. god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word.
Richard Farina
#35. we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.
Peter Nadas
#36. People are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.
Fredric Brown
#37. On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
Fernando Pessoa
#39. It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.
William Faulkner
#40. The zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different.
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
Padgett Powell
#41. The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.
Donald Barthelme
#42. i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.
Johnny Shaw
#43. Make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.
Robert Walser
#44. my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures.
Peter Nadas
#45. there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.
C.J. Box
#46. In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador.
Padgett Powell
#47. If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.
David Markson
#48. Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.
Harry Crews
#49. you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.
Jim Dodge
#50. you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.
Jim Dodge
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