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We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring. Jon Ronson
Winston Churchill quote: "You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you..."
You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. Winston Churchill
hand and wrist aches are more common than ever...Wikipedia lists...my favorite, Raver's Thumb, which you can get from repeatedly waving a glow stick in the air (see, kids, ecstasy really is bad for you). A. J. Jacobs
In principle you could hypertunnel from a Zone B world, but in practice you can’t get the tech together. The evil rays revel in chaotic class-three and class-four zones." --Rudy Rucker, story notes, Mathies in Love Rudy Rucker
Charles Bukowski quote: "I get 75 letters a month. If i answered them that's all I..."
I get 75 letters a month. If i answered them that's all I would ever do. Charles Bukowski
Edwidge Danticat quote: "The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That..."
The soldiers can come and do with us what they want. That makes papa feel weak, she says. He gets angry when he feels weak. Edwidge Danticat
Paulo Coelho quote: "Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and..."
Things do not always happen the way I would have wanted, and it's best that I get used to that. Paulo Coelho
Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather. Louisa May Alcott
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I'll show the..."
But I hate to get anywhere by working for it. I'll show the marks, don't you know. F. Scott Fitzgerald
...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. Harold Bloom
David Foster Wallace quote: "It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called..."
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure. David Foster Wallace
A blank space on a form, the missing page, a void, a hole in your knowledge of someone--it's still some real *thing*. It exists. You don't get to fill it in with whatever you want. Barbara Kingsolver
Jim Rohn quote: "If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you..."
If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles. Jim Rohn
When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew a tired, vulnerable marketing target when they saw it. "Hey, ladies," it said to us, "go ahead, get liberated. We'll take care of dinner." They threw open the door and we walked into a nutritional crisis and genuinely toxic food supply. If you think toxic is an exaggeration, read the package directions for handling raw chicken from a CAFO. We came a long way, baby,... Barbara Kingsolver
But she did not take her eyes from the wheels of the second car. And exactly at the moment when the midpoint between the wheels drew level with her, she threw away the red bag, and drawing her head back into her shoulders, fell on her hands under the car, and with a light movement, as though she would rise immediately, dropped on her knees. And at the instant she was terror-stricken at what she was doing. 'Where am I? What am I doing? What for?' She tried to get up, to throw herself back; but... Leo Tolstoy

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