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invisibility is a luxury.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.
— John Sullivan Dwight
At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Fearing the worst is worse than knowing the worst.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
— Andrew Sullivan
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
— John Mortimer
Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil.
Is not true leisure one with true toil? — John Sullivan Dwight
Is not true leisure one with true toil? — John Sullivan Dwight
Good health is true wealth.
— Urijah Faber
As the planet warms, evolution speeds. We've known this for a long time.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Even the great anxiety of writing can be stilled for the eight minutes it takes to eat a pineapple popsicle.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.
— John O'Sullivan
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
— Gilles Deleuze
Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Everything takes time. You have to love the journey and the process.
— Benson Henderson
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
— Marlo Thomas
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
The best government is that which governs least.
— John L. O'Sullivan
Every unhappy family is periodically ransacked by joy.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.
— John Sullivan Dwight
What's old doesn't need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
They are trying to live, but they have no room to breathe. So they try harder and breathe less.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
It's just amazing the lengths people go to, to be thought of as special.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
— Orson Scott Card
We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?
— John L. O'Sullivan
A good writer wants from us - or has no right to ask more than - intelligence, good faith and time.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
Thinking you're a genius is death.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan