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John Braine quote: "If the original of any of your characters would win a libel..."
If the original of any of your characters would win a libel case against you, you have failed to create a real character. John Braine
I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable. John Irving
I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration — it’s daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It’s just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.” He went on: “I can’t face any more days when I write five pages and throw them away. I can’t do that anymore. --New York Times, 18 Nov. 2012 Philip Roth
Dave Eggers quote: "The peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of..."
The peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts. Dave Eggers
Jodi Picoult quote: "they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you..."
they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were Jodi Picoult
Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art is the transference of emotion; talent is the gift of conveying that emotion James Joyce
I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it. Rex Stout
It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life, and thereby rebel against our creator: and why not impious, say I, to build houses, cultivate the ground, or sail upon the ocean? In all these actions we employ our powers of mind and body to produce some innovation in the course of nature; and in non of them do we any more. They are all of them therefore equally innocent, or equally criminal. David Hume
Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means. C. S. Lewis
Yes, love," responded his sister cheerfully, "but it wasn't of the least consequence, and in any event I answered for you. You would be astonished, I daresay, if you knew what interesting conversations I enjoy with myself. Georgette Heyer
I think that people should be free to to engage in any sexual practices they choose. They should draw the line at goats, though. Elton John
I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere; William Shakespeare
Laura Lippman quote: "Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it...."
Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for. Laura Lippman
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part..."
when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. Robert A. Heinlein
I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world? spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount Mc. Kinley? is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possible sins? --Hey Nostradamus! Doug Coupland

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