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The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency.
— Adam Haslett
I'm the only one who doesn't always want answers.
— Adam Haslett
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
— Adam Haslett
The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.
— Adam Haslett
We live among the dead until we join them,
— Adam Haslett
I hadn't expected much from the place, but I hadn't realized how ugly it would be, either. We
— Adam Haslett
He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.
— Adam Haslett
Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
— Henning Mankell
I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.
— Matt Dillon
I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
— Zainab Salbi
When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.
— Archie Griffin
I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons.
— Diane Kruger
Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.
— Michael Medved
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
— Adam Haslett
Sexism is so five minutes ago. I think for the most part, people accept that women are as competent as men.
— Katie Couric
he'd use both hands to try to pry my thumb
— Adam Haslett
I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.
— Banana Yoshimoto
There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.
— Adam Haslett
Discovery is the joy.
— Adam Haslett
Patricia felt as though she had been run over by a melting ice cream truck that had recently burst into flames.
— T.W. Brown
Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over
— Adam Haslett
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
— Adam Haslett
I had never understood before the invisibility of a human. How what we take to be a person is in fact a spirit we can never see.
— Adam Haslett
...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.
— Adam Haslett
There was just the sensation of it. A
— Adam Haslett
It's easy to make too much of fathers, I want to say. A
— Adam Haslett
Love doesn't break easily, I found. But people do.
— Amy Garvey