There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.
– Garth Risk Hallberg
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- And didn’t time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they’re not around other people. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- It’s like Charlie’s dreamed everything he lived through here. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Everything’s always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- William, an artist is someone who combines a desperate need to be understood with the fiercest love of privacy- – Garth Risk Hallberg
- No amount of art, even of the Great American variety, can elevate you above, or insulate you from, the divisions, the cataclysms, of ordinary life. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else’s head. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- William loathed his family,’ Mercer said. ‘With cause. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- You couldn’t trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- It’s a lesson some writers take a lifetime to learn: what makes us care about things is other people caring, too. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Whatever he’s feeling at a given moment is what he’s always been and always will be feeling. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die? – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he’ll ever get where he’s going, and behind him, where he’s come from might as well not be there. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- And so there was a fundamental scepticism about the ability of any institution, even one like the novel, to tell us anything true. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret-”to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- America isn’t that far from totalitarianism. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- I didn’t drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all. – Garth Risk Hallberg
- Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn’t. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate? – Stephen Fry
- I can’t even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don’t even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world. – Charles Bowden
- Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There’s no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief. – Elizabeth von Arnim
- Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
- The universe runs on the principle that one who can exert the most evil on other creatures runs the show. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- The language, feminine desires to speak, and her first phrase to express her love to him – *blush* – Saravana Kumar Murugan
- One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed… – The Little Prince
- The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- All women speak two languages:-¨the language of men-¨and the language of silent suffering.-¨ Some women speak a third,-¨the language of queens. – Mohja Kahf
- Language comes first. It’s not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven’t got language, you can’t be conscious. – Alan Moore
- The German language is so sonorous, isn’t it? Beautiful language…the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry. – John Oliver
- Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed? – Anthony North
- Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. – Vince Lombardi Jr
- Why should I be perfect.. when I’m already imperfectly perfect. And that’s what is unique and perfect about me. – Abhishek Kumar