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Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual. Franz Kafka
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction. Edward Gibbon
R. L. Stine quote: "I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you..."
I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day? R. L. Stine
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter. Iain Banks
Eric Ambler quote: "Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it"
Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it Eric Ambler
Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so when you pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there waiting for you." I press her hand against my cheek, hard enough to leave a mark. "You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you. Jodi Picoult
I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down. Russell Brand
The Playwright had long been fascinated by the strange mercurial personality of the Actor. What is "acting." and why do we respond to "great acting" as we do? We know that an actor is "acting" and yet - we wish to forget that an actor is "acting," and in the presence of talented actors we quickly do forget. This is a mystery, a riddle. How can we forget the actor "acts"? Is the actor "acting" on our behalf? Is the subtext of the actor's "acting" always and forever our own buried (and... Joyce Carol Oates
One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in. Fannie Flagg
Peter S. Beagle quote: "Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We..."
Who has choices need not choose. We must, who have none. We can love but what we lose-- What is gone is gone. Peter S. Beagle
Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol. Ernest Hemingway
Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go. Emma Goldman
We have to be able to criticizewhat we love, say what we have to say. Cause if you're not trying to make something better thenas far as I can tellyou are just in the way. Ani DiFranco
Charles Bukowski quote: "A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man..."
A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class Charles Bukowski
He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice. Jane Austen

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