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Jesse Ball Quotes

I’m confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so Picture Quote #1

Much of my work has been done in first person Picture Quote #1

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be Picture Quote #1

I’m an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor Picture Quote #1

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another Picture Quote #1

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs Picture Quote #1

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible Picture Quote #1

This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives Picture Quote #1

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is Picture Quote #1

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life Picture Quote #1

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have Picture Quote #1

One can’t say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life Picture Quote #1

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another Picture Quote #1

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another Picture Quote #1

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past Picture Quote #1

I’m an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor Picture Quote #1

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don’t you? Picture Quote #1

If he acts, if he doesn’t, it’s meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all Picture Quote #1

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I’m confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so (Jesse Ball Quotes) Much of my work has been done in first person (Jesse Ball Quotes) I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be (Jesse Ball Quotes) I’m an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor. (Jesse Ball Quotes) Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another (Jesse Ball Quotes) As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs. (Jesse Ball Quotes) Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible. (Jesse Ball Quotes) This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives (Jesse Ball Quotes) I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is (Jesse Ball Quotes) Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life (Jesse Ball Quotes) It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have (Jesse Ball Quotes) One can’t say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life (Jesse Ball Quotes) Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another (Jesse Ball Quotes) In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another (Jesse Ball Quotes) The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past (Jesse Ball Quotes) I’m an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor (Jesse Ball Quotes) Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don’t you? (Jesse Ball Quotes) If he acts, if he doesn’t, it’s meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all (Jesse Ball Quotes)