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Joseph Conrad quote: "Semua ambisi itu sah, kecuali yang dicapai dengan..."

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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information. Irvine Welsh
...and I thought I might take him home and see how he works. It's really neat the way all those little bone things fit together, like a zipper. Anne Rivers Siddons
But I don't want to go back. Not yet. Just because. Because every once in a while, somebody brings me my lunch tray and my meds and he has a black eye or his forehead is swollen with stitches, and he says:"We miss you Mr. Durden."Or somebody with a broken nose pushes a mop past me and whispers:"Everything's going according to the plan. Whispers"We're going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world."Whispers"We look forward to getting you back. Chuck Palahniuk
Miguel de Unamuno quote: "A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he..."
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that..."
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz. P. G. Wodehouse
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. George Orwell
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. Michael Lewis
Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it. Alan Cumming
If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up. Mark Haddon
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct. Rebecca West
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. Robert Fulghum
George R. R. Martin quote: "Night’s Watch takes no part, so no man’s our enemy.” "And no..."
Night’s Watch takes no part, so no man’s our enemy.” "And no man’s our friend, she thought. George R. R. Martin
I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like. Dwayne Johnson
Nicolas Roeg quote: "Fear has many faces."
Fear has many faces. Nicolas Roeg