Drew Shealy

“Life is action, Junah. Even choosing not to act, we act. We cannot do otherwise. Therefore act with vigor!”
― Steven Pressfield, The Legend of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life

“Then there was the elevator man, a broken man from Milwaukee, who seemed to sneer every time you called your floor, as though you were such a fool for choosing that particular floor,”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last longer.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“And so I was down on Fifth and Olive, where the big street cars chewed your ears with their noise, and the smell of gasoline made the sight of the palm trees seem sad, and the black pavement still wet from the fog of the night before.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust