The Family Fang
Kevin Wilson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when you actually do them.”
“Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes,” their father told them. “Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.”
“He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.”
“The simplest things are the hardest to understand.”
“Conventional lives are the perfect refuge if you are a terrible artist.”
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?”
“What do you think I'm going to do?" she asked him. "Whatever it is," he answered, "I think you'll be terrified when it happens. Don't let that stop you.”
“Atop a Ferris wheel, Orson Welles told Joseph Cotten how Italy's thirty years of war and terror and bloodshed had produced the Renaissance and Michelangelo, and how Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace had produced, goddamn, only the cuckoo clock.”
“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would be mystified to discover.”
“When she called her brother, Buster said that she should climb out the window of the bathroom and run away, which was his solution to most problems.”
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Book Keywords:
enlightenment, humor, life-lessons, understanding, meaning-of-life, traumatic-experiences
