Walter Tevis Quotes

#1. when Rave finally pulled his mouth away she felt drained yet energized, lost but found, sated but wanting. And desperately, irrevocably, and joyously in love.

Scott Prussing

#2. You can either have one guy lifting a billion pounds by himself, and it takes many years of planning and preparation - or you can have a billion people, each lifting one pound, and it takes a mere moment. This is the power of unity.

Jacque Fresco

#3. If you're my bestfriend I shouldn't have to ask you to lie for me.

Kevin Hart

#4. New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

Walter Tevis

#5. I am human. I talk and I listen and I read.

Walter Tevis

#6. The world is, she would say. It just is, boy.

Richard Flanagan

#7. Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods.

Walter Tevis

#8. My days of being an absentee dad are well and truly over.

Sean Bean

#9. It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires - to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.

Walter Tevis

#10. I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

Walter Tevis

#11. The strange thing about television is that it doesn't tell you everything.

Walter Tevis

#12. Lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Agatha Christie

#13. The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam.

Thomas Hood

#14. Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can't be played for a laugh.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. it was the meaning of more than the game of pool, more than the five-by-ten-foot microcosm of ambition and desire. It seemed to him as if all men must know this because it is in every meeting and every act, in the whole gigantic hustle of men's lives.

Walter Tevis

#16. The Age of Technology has rusted.

Walter Tevis

#17. Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse you.

Walter Tevis

#18. everywhere alone.

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#19. Sometimes the greatest blessings come when we leave the familiar behind and take a step of faith.

Norma Gail

#20. To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by.

Walter Tevis

#21. If I cannot read and learn and have things that are worth thinking about, I would rather immolate myself than go on living. Synthetic

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#22. Did they ruin your mind when they ruined your eyes, Mr Newton?' Newton

Walter Tevis

#23. Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#24. When literacy died, so had history.

Walter Tevis

#25. When the bottles hit they tinkled and jangled noisily; but Eddie did not hear them because of the overriding - yet distant, detached, far-off - sound of his own screaming.

Walter Tevis

#26. In the future, fortune could well favor those who didn't sell their good domain names too cheaply, or too boldly

Frank Schilling

#27. and I live alone everywhere. Altogether

Walter Tevis

#28. In meeting Betty Jo he had learned that there was a large substratum of society that was totally unaffected by this middle-class prototype, that a huge and indifferent mass of persons had virtually no ambitions and no values whatever.

Walter Tevis

#29. The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

Roger Goodell