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.

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  Important, Whole, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Apr 11, 2013

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• Primero, dice, hay que salir al mundo. No se trata simplemente de salir a la puerta de casa. No, eso es simplemente salir. Es lo que uno hace cuando va a la tienda a comprar una barra de pan, un poco de queso y una botella de vino. Cuando uno sale al mundo, se está despojando de ideas preconcebidas de caminos pasados y de ideas de caminos pasados, e intenta moverse libremente por una geografía nueva e insustancial.

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  Moving, Wine, Simple

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 21, 2013

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• Se te exigen tres cosas: los deseos que pediste cuando conociste la amplitud de esta vida; el contrato que firmaste cuando decidiste que tus deseos no eran ciertos ni posibles; y la aplicación del castigo que aceptaste cuando supiste que romperías el contrato de tu vida.

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  Punishment, Wish, Three

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Nov 27, 2011

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• I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

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  Book, Pages, Type

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• Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

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  Believe, True You

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Oct 30, 2011

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• I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

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  Elephants, Water, Needs

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Aug 05, 2012

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• Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

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  Sunday, Self, Reason

  Jesse Ball (2007). “Samedi the Deafness: A Novel”, Vintage

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• I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

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  Book, Desperation, Pleasure

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• 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.

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  Largo, Intento, Camino

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Sep 01, 2014

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• 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.

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  Believe, Trying, Doe

  Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.183, Vintage

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• We tire differently if we love or love not.

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  Tire, Ifs

  Jesse Ball (2011). “The Curfew”, p.90, Vintage

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• Diferentes momentos y diferentes estructuras tienen más sentido en un momento de la vida que en otro.

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  Different, Structure, Points In Life

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• 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.

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  Pasado, Hombres, Voz

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• That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

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  Would Be, False Hope, Certainty

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ball from Jul 29, 2013

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• …There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

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  Personality, Decision, Cost

  Jesse Ball (2011). “The Curfew”, p.38, Vintage

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• I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

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  Confused, Book, Helping

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• 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.

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  Might, Pairs, Events

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• 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.

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  Heart, Enterprise, Humans

  Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage

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• This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

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  Osos

  Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.173, Vintage

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• I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

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  Writing, Different, Purpose

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• The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

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  Book, Turns, Concepts

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• I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

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  Book, Luck, Might

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• I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

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  Want, Easier

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• I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

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  Confused, Mind, Used To Be

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• I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.

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  Quiere, Sabe

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