Shura Cherkassky Quotes

#1. We listen to songs to figure them out, to unravel the mystery of the words and the tune.

David Levithan

#2. That's how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they'll never see. But right then I was too stuck in the moment, in the visceral pleasure of it all.

Leah Raeder

#3. Writing is a business and should be practiced as such. On days when you think you can't possibly write a line you do it anyhow.

Henry Denker

#4. The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

James McBride

#5. Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
Scripps: No.
Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.

Alan Bennett

#6. The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Garet Garrett

#7. Be a Force of Good in the World. You can't change everything.

Phil Mitchell

#8. She wasn't angry. You can't get angry just because the world's so much bigger than you and you're stuck in it.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Just repeat this phrase whenever you feel the urge to jump some other guy's bones."
His mouth brushes my ear. "Loren Hale fucks better.

Krista Ritchie