Ifs Quotes (page 220)

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• writing
• best
• people

If there's another writer, like Ross McDonald or Raymond Chandler, and all they're writing are mysteries, they won't be accepted," he said. "And that's problematic. A lot of so-called literary novels are just not very good. They're not well-written, they're not well-thought-out. They have pyrotechnics of intelligence."On the other hand, some of the best writers and speculative ideas are in science-fiction. The science-fiction genre is completely, completely segregated. And these people are... Walter Mosley

• animal
• true
• horse riding

If the three brothers all ride horses, there are six animals and eighteen legs involved: that is true rationalism, and fairyland is full of it. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• understanding
• crazy
• thoughts

If we isolate the stray thought, the passing thought," he said, "the thought whose origin is unfathomable, then we begin to understand that we are routinely deranged, everyday crazy. Don DeLillo

• motivational
• change
• different

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change. Taylor Swift

• work
• equality
• success

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. Albert Einstein

• energy
• energies
• being mad

If you're going to expend energy being mad about Photoshop, you'll also have to be mad about earrings. No one's ears are that sparkly! Tina Fey

• art
• justice
• logic

If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales. Arthur Conan Doyle

• boyfriend
• your boyfriend

If I was your boyfriend <3 Justin Bieber

• bleed
• us
• bleeds

If you prick us, do we not bleed? William Shakespeare

• god
• bored
• science

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. Emile M. Cioran

• respect
• latin
• respectfully

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin. A. A. Milne

• new
• newness
• if then

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. Robert M. Pirsig

• kiss
• look
• you me

If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon Meg Cabot

• time
• mood
• true

If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember ahappy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up amoment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, isa source of profound satisfaction. Primo Levi

• words
• hand
• likely

If sex were all, then every trembling hand. Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words. Wallace Stevens