Top 16 Joe Gould Quotes
#2. The second I tried to tell myself I wasn't in love was the moment I realized I was.
Lang Leav
#3. I would judge the sanest man to be him who most firmly realizes the tragic isolation of humanity and pursues his essential purposes calmly. I suppose I feel about it this way because I have a delusion of grandeur. I believe myself to be Joe Gould.
Joe Gould
#4. it's only through taking risks that success can be found.
Jamie Bautista
#5. When you don't have a future, you act different. You don't plan. You don't try. You just... exist
Sarah Fine
#8. We name us and then we are lost, tamed
I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness
Alice Notley
#9. Did we come all the way here for a book, Baba?"
"Just one, my child. Just one."
"It must be a special book."
"All books are special, dear.
Renee Ahdieh
#10. I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.
Sonia Sotomayor
#11. I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield
#12. ...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the war. That is an epitome of civilization. We continually invent new diseases and almost catch up with them by our invention of remedies.
Joe Gould
#14. I knew the instant Margaret spoke that she intended to use me as a weapon. What you fail to understand is this: I am her weapon to use.
Courtney Milan
#15. Without being tiresome. They lacked that all-important dimension of physics: torque. Too much time ahead, too little behind, like a man trying to carry a horizontal ladder with a grip at one end.
Nancy Kress
#16. I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.
Dana Gould
