Prentice Marshall quotes

“It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.”
-- Prentice Marshall

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“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”

“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”

“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.”

“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”

“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”

“There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.”

“A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.”

“The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.”

“Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities”

“If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both.”

Source : Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan