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Chuck Palahniuk quote: "That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility."

That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.

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Ever since, two summers ago, Joe Marino had begun to come into her bed, a preposterous fecundity had overtaken the staked plans, out in the side garden where the southwestern sun slanted in through the line of willows each long afternoon. The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please. Of plants, tomatoes seemed the... John Updike
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Scott Adams quote: "I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. Scott Adams
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined?" That's big. "Yes. But there's something else." What else? He leaned forward. "Being forgotten," he whispered. Mitch Albom
The actor's realm is that of the fleeting. Of all kinds of fame, it is known, his is the most ephemeral. At least, this is said in conversation. But all kinds of fame are ephemeral. From the point of view of Sirius, Goethe's works in ten thousand years will be dust and his name forgotten. Albert Camus
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Lauren Bacall quote: "Imagination is the highest kite that can fly."
Imagination is the highest kite that can fly. Lauren Bacall
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! Bobby Knight
Sebastian Bach quote: "You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at..."
You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway. Sebastian Bach
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Jack Black
If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing. Arthur Godfrey
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible. Karl Jaspers
Look in the mirror, and don't be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. Stephen Jay Gould
Bil Keane quote: "A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. Bil Keane