Every period in one's life, I saw, bustles with novel worthy passions, dilemmas, and energies specific to that age. (...) What better reason to get writing now? With each passing era, a new novel is possible. And a potentially great book you could have written slips away into noveling oblivion.

No Plot, No Problem (Chris Baty) 

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A melhor coisa que se podia dizer acerca de viajar para o estrangeiro com Katz era que se poupava o resto da América a ter de passar o Verão com ele.

Depressa se tornou um ruído de fundo, uma pessoa do outro lado da mesa que acolhia cada novo prato com «que é esta merda?», um estranho hiperactivo que falava continuamente de erros grosseiros e ia inexplicavelmente atrás de mim para onde quer que eu fosse, até que, passado algum tempo, eu me abstraía dele e passava um Verão quase tão agradável e, num certo sentido, tão solitário como o anterior.

"Nem Aqui, Nem Ali" (Bill Bryson) 

"My mother used to tell me, when I was small, that if I studied jujitsu with the local barber who taught in the loft over his shop, I would be able to throw a big man with only one finger.

'How many big men have only one finger, Mother?' I asked, being literal to the quick. But when I understood what she meant I was not surprised, since I had realized even earlier than that, that adversity has it compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise."

"Winter's Tale" (Mark Helprin) 

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