Paluch Publishing Quotes

#1. Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs
what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

Thomas Pynchon

#2. But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.

I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway.

Marian Keyes

#3. Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh ... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one.

Anton Chekhov

#4. Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Wilfred Owen

#5. There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

Neal A. Maxwell

#6. I'm constantly busy.

Norman Reedus

#7. When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.

Sally Mann

#8. I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

Zack Wheat

#9. If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.

Steve Yegge

#10. You are what you pretend to be.

Stephen Bayley

#11. What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back and say, "My daddy was being arrested at the White House fence and booed off commencement stages. He was trying."

Chris Hedges

#12. It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.

Pieter Zeeman

#13. I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.

Tahereh Mafi