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Bette Davis quote: "With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

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It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cognition and immediacy, an automatism that tends to level out all expression into the most generic, anonymous, and abstract formulas, to dilute meaning, to blunt the edge of expressiveness, extinguishing the sparks that shoots out from the collision of words and new circumstances. Italo Calvino
Stephen King quote: "Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture..."
Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Stephen King
H. G. Wells quote: "We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us..."
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams. H. G. Wells
Tom Clancy quote: "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to..."
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. Chinua Achebe
It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily. Michael O'Donoghue
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. Henri Nouwen
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you..."
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are. Jose Ortega y Gasset
I couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.'He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs.''What kind of dogs?' I asked.He smiled and glanced at me, wanting to see my reaction. 'Maltese. Their names are Peeka and Boo.''Oh, shit, Edward, you're joking me.''Donna wants the dogs included in the engagement pictures.'I stared at him, and the look on my face seemed to amuse him. He laughed.... Laurell K. Hamilton
Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way. Stephen King
William Shakespeare quote: "A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his..."
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. William Shakespeare
William E. Gladstone quote: "No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone
Thomas Jane quote: "I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing,..."
I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life. Thomas Jane
Skeet Ulrich quote: "Everybody else has been seen, been proven."
Everybody else has been seen, been proven. Skeet Ulrich
Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well. Lynette Fromme