|

|

Advertisements

Anthony Marra Quotes

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness Picture Quote #1

For the uninitiated, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination Picture Quote #1

But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear? Picture Quote #1

Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today’s masterpiece is tomorrow’s birdcage lining Picture Quote #1

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic Picture Quote #1

It’s hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who has encountered ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ without falling for them Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn’t know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery Picture Quote #1

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled ‘The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.’ Picture Quote #1

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning Picture Quote #1

When I came to the last line of ‘Car Crash While Hitchhiking,’ I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story’s language Picture Quote #1

Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy’s career. He began writing his first novel, ‘Childhood,’ while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, ‘Hadji Murad,’ is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century Picture Quote #1

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death Picture Quote #1

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn’t create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written Picture Quote #1

We all know to feel sympathy for those who’ve suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light Picture Quote #1

No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it’s unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents Picture Quote #1

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk Picture Quote #1

We twist our souls around each other’s miseries Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally Picture Quote #1

Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it Picture Quote #1

Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are Picture Quote #1

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are Picture Quote #1

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own Picture Quote #1

Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn’t create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written Picture Quote #1

Advertisements

What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all Picture Quote #1

She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat Picture Quote #1

There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well Picture Quote #1

Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it Picture Quote #1

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree Picture Quote #1

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion Picture Quote #1

1 2

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Advertisements

Text Quotes

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness (Anthony Marra Quotes) For the uninitiated, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination. (Anthony Marra Quotes) But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear? (Anthony Marra Quotes) Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today’s masterpiece is tomorrow’s birdcage lining. (Anthony Marra Quotes) Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic. (Anthony Marra Quotes) It’s hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who has encountered ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ without falling for them. (Anthony Marra Quotes) I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn’t know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery. (Anthony Marra Quotes) After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled ‘The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.’ (Anthony Marra Quotes) Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning. (Anthony Marra Quotes) When I came to the last line of ‘Car Crash While Hitchhiking,’ I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story’s language. (Anthony Marra Quotes) Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy’s career. He began writing his first novel, ‘Childhood,’ while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, ‘Hadji Murad,’ is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century. (Anthony Marra Quotes) My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived in St. Petersburg about two months after Anna Politkovskaya was assassinated for her reports on Chechnya. I lived with an elderly woman and her grown children in an apartment that was not too far from the neighborhood military cadet school. (Anthony Marra Quotes) I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death. (Anthony Marra Quotes) Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn’t create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written. (Anthony Marra Quotes) We all know to feel sympathy for those who’ve suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light. (Anthony Marra Quotes) No one reaches the Oval Office without a great deal of admiration for the institution - and himself - so it’s unsurprising that sitting presidents favor the biographies of former presidents. (Anthony Marra Quotes) At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. (Anthony Marra Quotes) We twist our souls around each other’s miseries (Anthony Marra Quotes) War is unnatural, it causes people to act unnaturally (Anthony Marra Quotes) Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it (Anthony Marra Quotes) Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are (Anthony Marra Quotes) We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are (Anthony Marra Quotes) Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of all things to fulfill its own (Anthony Marra Quotes) Perhaps our deepest love is already inscribed within us, so its object doesn’t create a new word but instead allows us to read the one written (Anthony Marra Quotes) What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all (Anthony Marra Quotes) She was fluent in four languages and yet her fists against the rusted hood were the fullest articulation of her defeat (Anthony Marra Quotes) There is something miraculous in the way the years wash away your evidence, first you, then your friends and family, then the descendants who remember your face, until you aren’t even a memory, you’re only carbon, no greater than your atoms, and time will divide them as well (Anthony Marra Quotes) Invader and invaded held on to their fistfuls of earth, but in the end, the earth outlived the hands that held it (Anthony Marra Quotes) For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree (Anthony Marra Quotes) Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion (Anthony Marra Quotes)

1 2