Knowledge Found and Wisdom Gathered

Knowledge Found

Wisdom Gathered

A collection of truths

"Everything is food, even pain"

Found in Where the Bird Sings Best
by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Found in Last Evenings on Earth
by Roberto Belaño

Found in Dirty Havana Trilogy
by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Found in Dear John Wayne
by Sherman Alexie

Found in Augustus
by John Williams

Found in I was a good smoker
by Alejandro Zambra

Found in Spring
by David Szalay

Found in The Sojourn
by Andrew Krivak

Found in The Possibility of an Island
by Michel Houellebecq

Found in Platform
by Michel Houellebecq

Found in Deal
by Bill Kreutzmann and Benjy Eisen

Found in Hellfire
by Mia Gallagher

Found in Youth
by David Szalay

Found in Diamonds
by Colin Barrett

Found in The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
by Reinaldo Arenas

Found in The Mermaid in Chelsea Creek
by Michelle Tea

Found in Ways of Going Home
by Alejandro Zambra

Found in Cain's Book
by Alexander Trocchi

Found in Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey

Found in Short Days
an essay by Sarah Manguso

Found in Person
By Sam Pink

Found in 10:04
By Ben Lerner

Found in Authority
By Jeff VanderMeer

Found in The Narrow Road to The Deep North
By Richard Flanagan

Found in Flowers of Ruin
By Patrick Modiano

Found in Prose from Autumn in Gerona
By Roberto Bolaño

Found in Company K
By William March

Found in Harvest
By Jim Crace

Found in In Evil Hour
Gabriel García Márquez

Found in Fear: A Novel of World War I
Gabriel Chevallier

Found in Speedboat
Renata Adler

Found in Crappalachia: A biography of place
Scott McClanahan

Found in Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery
Jennie Erin Smith

"There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold very few copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote never was published and he didn't have the money to publish it himself, then he thought he was truly great."

Found in Women
Charles Bukowski

Found in Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

Knowledge Found

Wisdom Gathered

"Everything is food, even pain"

"Life is not as kind as literature"

"To live in inner peace, you've got to be an idiot, right?"

"If it's fiction, it better be true."

"It is fortunate that youth never recognizes its ignorance, for if it did it would not find the courage to get the habit of endurance."

"Cigarettes are the punctuation marks of life."

"Hell has no fury fury like a woman scorned in Calais."

"If there be a purpose, it happens of a moment within us, and a lifetime without us, like water opening and closing in a wake."

"Who still thinks about art when happiness is possible?"

"It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relationships with other people unbearable."

"Don't ever give meth to a raven. It's not a good idea"

"Noddin' isn't lyin. It's just avoiding a scrap"

"Happiness is having one more euro than your brother in law."

"Luck will knock you only so far from the tree."

"I was young. But the world has always been in the hands of the old, and old men's ideas are strange and different."

"Dirty cities have dirty pigeons."

"Sometimes I think I'm writing this book just to remember those conversations."

"It is difficult to explain to the underprivileged that play is more serious than work."

"There's times that you're better off being a little dense in things like arithmetic."

"Most bird names are onomatopoeic—they name themselves. Fish, on the other hand, just have to float there and take what's given."

"Knowing how to really forget something is a talent learned too late."

"Nothing in the world... Is as old as what futuristic was in the past."

"A circle looks at a square and sees a poorly made circle."

"There are vitamins in beauty"

"Sunday evenings in winter are as depressing in the affluent west-side neighborhoods as they are around the Ursulines and on the glacial square of the Panthéon."

"Simple solutions guide our actions. Sentimental education has only one motto: Don't suffer "

"Soldiers aren't supposed to think... If they could think, they wouldn't be soldiers"

"Sometimes sense is colder than an icicle"

"Anyone who eats dirt,
carries his own soil."

"A man has the right to be stupid on his own account, but not on behalf of others"

"Lonely people see double entendres everywhere"

"There are no such things as ghosts because they do not haunt us."

"Old age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill"

"You should talk. Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out of his mouth."