Mickey Ray Donovan Quotes

#1. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Lucinda Williams

#2. If life is hard and we don't celebrate the small accomplishments, what's left?

Shawn Goodman

#3. Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

Gunnar Myrdal

#4. You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

#5. Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

Voltaire

#6. He is beautiful.

Lauren Oliver

#7. You might not feel anything for me, but I feel everything for you.

Kerry Lonsdale

#8. Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death.

Thomas Harris

#9. For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold ...

David Grossman

#10. Nothing lasts, the purely loving gestures of
children tumble into the void.

Roberto Bolano

#11. I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove ... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

#12. Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead.' Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to 'poop on a stick,' but sounded more succinct, like this: 'Of course they won't bloody remember, they'll be dead, Poopstick.

Christopher Moore

#13. At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

Edmund Phelps

#14. I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

Gabrielle Union

#15. It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

Donal Henahan