Quotes by Joe Meno

Joe Meno

[Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it’s this great moment of connection and it’s a surprise. But that’s what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise.

Awkward

Expectations

Sex

A book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating word to image, connecting these images to memories, dreams, and larger ideas. Television, film, even the stage play, have already been imagined for us, but the book, in whatever form we choose to interact with it, forces us to complete it.

Book

Dream

Memories

Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.

Children

Loss

Love

After school the very next day, El Rey’s mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

Home

Night

School

An act of evil is the death of wonder

Acts Of Evil

Evil

Wonder

And it’s exactly what’s wrong with the radio. It’s like…anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Ends

Radio

Trying

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

Matter

Terrible

World

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it’s as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they’re sleeping.

Simple

Sleep

Worry

Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.

Confused

Love Is

Real

Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink’s Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

Book

Real

Writing

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Acts Of Evil

Afterlife

Animal

Answers

Art

Awkward

Believe

Book

Bored

Boys

Brave

Challenges

Character

Children

Cities

Confused

Country

Cry

Dark

Distance

Doe

Dream

Ears

Ends

Evil

Expectations

Failing

Fall

Feels

Fun

Glitter

Goes On

Greedy

Happens

Heart

Home

Humans

I've Learned

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Important Things

Impossible

Kids

Littles

Loss

Love

Love Is

Matter

Memories

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Quotes by Joe Meno

Joe Meno

[Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it’s this great moment of connection and it’s a surprise. But that’s what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise.

An act of evil is the death of wonder

And it’s exactly what’s wrong with the radio. It’s like…anything that tries to appeal to everybody always ends up sounding so cheap.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

Beneath all of her thoughts and worries, beneath the complication of conflicting identities and needs, maybe it’s as simple as loving the way some other person looks when they’re sleeping.

Do not be confused by what the natural world knows: We are all, in our own way, completely and totally alone. If love is real, it is complete and total failing of the intellect. It is utter self-destruction. It is pandemonium.

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