"I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers"
- Regina Spektor
About this Quote
In this quote, Regina Spektor expresses her affection for fantastic authors such as Kafka, Hemingway, and Salinger. She envisions having the ability to have a conversation with them and asking them any concern, confident that they would have a response. Nevertheless, she likewise recognizes the appeal and power of literature in the fact that even these brilliant authors do not have all the answers. The magic of reading or hearing something terrific lies in the reality that there is constantly room for analysis and personal understanding. Nobody individual, not even the best writers, can have all the responses, and that is what makes literature so special.
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"
