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Anne Rice quote: "I stumble through a carnival of horrors"

I stumble through a carnival of horrors

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At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing? Sylvia Plath
Thomas Carlyle quote: "Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book."
Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book. Thomas Carlyle
He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away. David Foster Wallace
It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance. Erich von Stroheim
Georges Rouault quote: "I am a believer and a conformist."
I am a believer and a conformist. Georges Rouault
Diane Abbott quote: "Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party."
Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. Diane Abbott
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world. Ellen DeGeneres
We throw in as many fresh words as we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it alive and vital. Virtually every page is a cliff-hanger—you've got to force them to turn it. Dr. Seuss
Doom. Doom. You sound like a funeral bell tolling,' said Grandfather. 'Talk like that is worse than swearing. I won't wash out your mouth with soap, however. A thimbleful of dandelion wine is indicated. Here, now, swig it down What's it taste like?' 'I'm a fire-eater! Whoosh!' 'Now upstairs, run three times around the block, do five somersets, six pushups, climb two trees, and you'll be concertmaster instead of chief mourner. Get!' On his way, running, Douglas thought, 'Four pushups, one tree... Ray Bradbury
Wilson Mizner quote: "Art is science made clear."
Art is science made clear. Wilson Mizner
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When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. Halle Berry
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on. William Devane
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Meg Cabot is the best author ever Meg Cabot
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You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there. Zig Ziglar
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This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me. Rod McKuen