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Joe Meno Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Imagination Writing

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

Important, Impossible, Important Things

Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.297, Akashic Books

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

School, Home, Night

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

Love, Children, Loss

Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.8, Akashic Books

Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole.

Country, Thinking Of You, Distance

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Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

Real, Book, Writing

I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they really want you to do is answer the phone. Nobody wants you to think about anything new or use your brain or make anything interesting because everything important has already been made. America is over; it's done being brilliant.Everything genius has already been built, like all the great works of art have already been produced.

Art, Thinking, Phones

The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

Past, Cities, Glitter

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

Brave, Humans, Seems

Joe Meno (2011). “The Great Perhaps”, p.273, Pan Macmillan

I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

Reading, Ideas, Trying

The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different from television or film because they ask you to finish the project. You have to be actively engaged to read a book. It's more like a blueprint. What it really is, is an opportunity... A book is a place where you're forced to use your imagination. I find it disappointing that you're not being asked to imagine more.

Book, Writing, Opportunity

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

Believe, Goes On, Happens

Joe Meno (2004). “Hairstyles of the Damned”, p.184, Akashic Books

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