"The Pale King" Quotes
"The Pale King" explores the lives of IRS agents in a Midwestern town and their struggles with boredom, routine, and the search for meaning.
fiction | 548 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom.
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
In the real world, there exist two kinds of people. Those who drain life and those who give it.
The soul is the infinite in potential and possibility.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
The future is not what it used to be.
The person you are is a million times better than the one you could or should be.
The terrible thing about the truth is that sometimes you find it.
