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Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball
American Poet
Born: Jun 7, 1978
Books Lying Me People Society Think
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised. Jesse Ball
Liar Dangerous Say Lies About Compromised Individual Most Sure Person Anything Which Then Who
Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth. Jesse Ball
Truth Matter Lying Say Cruelest Malicious Often Things Need
When I was a child, my father would read out loud to my brother, my mother, and me. Several times in the course of my childhood, he would read 'Alice and Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' over a few weeks. They were a great favorite with all of us. Jesse Ball
Great Me Mother Father Looking Few Alice Several Favorite Out Would Brother Through Weeks He Glass Over Read Course Were Loud Times Child Wonderland Childhood Us
I think the lies I make the most are in regards to my hopes and intentions for myself. As for lies I tell other people - I will certainly tell lies. When somebody is very ill and looks awful, and you tell them they look nice. Or if you just ate the last cookie, if someone asked me if I ate the last cookie, I would definitely lie about that. Jesse Ball
Myself Me You Lie People Will Somebody Nice Think Other Definitely Tell Ate Would Hopes Lies About Someone Look Most Looks Make Very Just Intentions Regards Them Asked Certainly Cookie Ill Awful Last
If society is a ship, it appears to many to be firmly at anchor in moral waters. Perhaps this isn't so. Jesse Ball
Society Waters Anchor Moral Firmly Perhaps Ship Many Appears
As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books. Jesse Ball
Lying Books Writer Fiction Central Thing
New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America. Jesse Ball
Sometimes Big States City Part Feels New Like Does Big City Chicago America York New York United United States
Lying is our stock-in-trade as social creatures. Jesse Ball
Lying Our Social Creatures
The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely. Jesse Ball
Work Gift Possess Kind Must Given More Crucial Wrote Reader Than Person Any Who Even Thing
In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say. Jesse Ball
Life Conversation People Other Else Everyone Say Angles Something Something Else Part Talk Question Trying Move Agenda Ask Then Uses Right
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
Best Grass Hundred Hundred Years See Castle Writers Proust Leaves Been Years As Far As Far Kafka Fugitive Whitman Works Captive Last Two
I just think we're on this rock orbiting a sun that's going to go out, and I don't know that human society is necessarily a wonderful thing for the planet. I think people can be kind to one another and share things, but I don't know that this particular iteration of civilization is to be preferred to any other. Jesse Ball
People Wonderful Be Kind Think Society Other Sun Out Kind Civilization Share Particular Know Another Rock Go Wonderful Thing Any Going Human Just Preferred Planet Human Society Thing Things Necessarily
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
Me Back Spend Books Bookstore Presumably Give Give Me More Myopic Bought Return Chicago Sell Prune Order Store Them Then Regularly Credit

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