Doing Quotes (page 870)
![Alan Moore quote: "Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see?..."](/pic/318757/600x316/quotation-alan-moore-please-dont-all-leave-somebody-has-to-do-it.jpg)
If I spoke to Rodman in those terms, saying that my grandparents' lives seem to me organic and ours what? hydroponic? he would ask in derision what I meant. Define my terms. How do you measure the organic residue of a man or a generation? This is all metaphor. If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.
Wallace Stegner
No need to go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much what everybody always says, and although I remember her as speaking golden words, I cannot recall precisely anything she said. If love is to be watched and listened to without embarrassment, it must be transmuted into art, and I don't know how to do that, and it is not what I have come to Zrich to learn.
Robertson Davies
This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which asses fly and princesses are restored to life by a kiss, but that world, purely possible and unrealistic, must exist according to structures defined at the outset (we have to know whether it is a world where a princess can be restored to life only by the kiss of a prince, or also by that of a witch, and whether the princess's kiss tranforms only frogs into princes or...
Umberto Eco
* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.
Sylvia Plath
She says, "Do you have any rubbers?" I say, I thought she was barren. "Sure, I'm sterile," she says, "but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease." I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, " That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt." So we have sex. If you could call it that.
Chuck Palahniuk
![Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some..."](/pic/318651/600x316/quotation-arthur-conan-doyle-no-man-burdens-his-mind-with-small-matters.jpg)
![George R. R. Martin quote: "Bring on your storm, my lord-and recall, if you do, the name..."](/pic/318644/600x316/quotation-george-r-r-martin-bring-on-your-storm-my-lord-and-recall-if.jpg)
![Blaise Pascal quote: "Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it..."](/pic/318632/600x316/quotation-blaise-pascal-men-never-commit-evil-so-fully-and-joyfully-as.jpg)