Christopher Buckley Catch-22’s first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured. – Christopher Buckley Endured Quotes Fresh Quotes Generation Quotes Laugh Quotes Madness Quotes Muchdelayed Quotes Muchneeded Quotes Readers Quotes Startlingly Quotes Terror Quotes War Quotes I hope when I’m on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive. The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Julia Holter I think of each record as different and not having very much in common with what went before or what comes next. – Julia Holter
David Coulthard If you’re not in a happy place, you’ll never deliver your full potential. – David Coulthard
Molly Qerim I’m really looking forward to joining ‘Mike & Mike.’ It will be a tremendous challenge. – Molly Qerim
Anthony Hemingway When you sit on something for so long you can’t see beyond it. It’s all you can see, so you become locked in it. – Anthony Hemingway
Shaun Tan I always overwrite – really awful, long bits of script – and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that’s a successful story. – Shaun Tan
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