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Quotes by "Jesse Ball"

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
— Jesse Ball The Curfew
Tags: hope, false-hope
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.
— Jesse Ball
Tags: say, things, matter, truth
There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.
— Jesse Ball
Tags: misunderstanding, beginning, time, funny
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
— Jesse Ball
Tags: credit, back, more, me
I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.
— Jesse Ball
Tags: school, me, faith, education
As far as I can see, the best writers in the last two hundred years have been Whitman, Rilke, Proust, Kafka. Their best works: 'Leaves of Grass - 1855;' 'Duino Elegies;' 'The Captive & The Fugitive;' 'The Castle.'
— Jesse Ball
Tags: see, grass, i-can, best
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