Stasiuk Quotes

#1. Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.

Donald Newhouse

#2. He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer.

Thomas Mann

#3. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

#4. I was in America, someone wanted a photo with me, I put my arm around her and she told me not to touch her.

Rupert Grint

#5. I'll even let her tie me to a chair if it'll make her feel better.

Carrie Clevenger

#6. It drew us, because life is made of bits of the present that stay in the mind. The world itself, really, is made of that.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#7. The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#8. Leave it alone, I'm handling this," Barrons told Ryodan.
"I suggest you do a better job."
"And I suggest you go fuck yourself.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#10. This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#11. Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#12. It gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?

Andrzej Stasiuk

#13. Sometimes it seems to me that things hold together only thanks to the borders, that the true identify of these lands and peoples is the shape of their territories in an atlas. It's a stupid thought, but I can't shake it.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#14. A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.

Barbara Demick

#15. It is the West's provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself

Andrzej Stasiuk

#16. Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

Socrates

#17. Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.

Harvey MacKay

#18. Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as the carton it comes in!

Jean Kerr

#19. Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher
than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#21. Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#22. I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.

Robin Sloan

#23. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

Sebastian Horsley

#24. Pale and massive, he absorbed time like a sponge. Moved something, wiped something, adjusted something, but the future never came.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#25. That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#26. Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#27. Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.

Adam Gopnik