“Run from the Furies, and they find you, as if fear were a homing device, as if literature itself, on contemplating the abyss, were an invitation to jump into it, while Wagner whistles.”
"Meeting at Winkel" http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E1DE1538F935A3575AC0A964948260&scp=36&sq=, The New York Times (6 September 1982)
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“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”
Tom Robbins book Another Roadside Attraction
Source: Another Roadside Attraction
“I am the penny whistle of American literature.”
Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
"I heard him say one time" about being cheated out of the profits of The Man With the Golden Arm film, quoted by Kurt Vonnegut, 1986.
Nonfiction works
“Old houses were scaffolding once
and workmen whistling.”
T. E. Hulme (1883–1917) English Imagist poet and critic
As quoted in Images (1960), edited by Alun R. Jones
“While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.”
Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954) African Americans' rights activist
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
Interview to Ellen Page in March 2016. "Você foge a normalidade", diz Jair Bolsonaro a Ellen Page https://www.opovo.com.br/noticias/brasil/2016/03/voce-foge-a-normalidade-diz-jair-bolsonaro-a-ellen-page.html. O Povo (11 March 2016).
“There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
[Lloyd George, David, David Lloyd George, War Memoirs, New, 1, 1938, Odhams Press Limited, London, 445, XXIV: Disintegration of the Liberal Party]
War Memoirs
