“He didn’t want to be what he wasn’t, he didn’t know how to be what he was.”
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 46
Source: Acheron
“He didn’t want to be what he wasn’t, he didn’t know how to be what he was.”
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 46
Orson Scott Card Ender's Game hexalogy
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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), The Polish Boy
“He knows what he wants, he's a good Jesuit, and the Jesuits know exactly what they want.”
Oswald Gracias (1944) Catholic cardinal
Source: Cardinal Gracias: curial reform is nearing the 'end of the tunnel' https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/36820/cardinal-gracias-curial-reform-is-nearing-the-end-of-the-tunnel (14 September 2017)
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: The Sweetest Thing
Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer
King's Shield (Inda #3, 2008)
Gao Xingjian (1940) Chinese novelist and playwright
Source: Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather (2005), p. 128, from "In an instant"