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“The next time you come to the Cookie Jar, the coffees on me. You could probably bottle that stuff of yours and sell it for rat poison.”
“Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.”
“On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings either claimed inspiration or had it c...”
“The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask yourself what you would do if...”
“Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i'm smiling”
“I don't know who a character is till I look into their eyes.”
“Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, its a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.”
“It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a strangers bleeding to death beside the road, most people wont stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a cou...”
“Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emotions to find words.”
“Alarm clocks, I felt, were nothing more than a plague rained down by an evil force, possibly even Lucifer himself.”
“A typical Celestine will devote a large proportion of their time to passing through the inscribed sectors of the planet studying the writings, either alone or accompanied by companions with whom to...”
“For of those to whom much is given, much is required”
“The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.”
“When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.”
“Nobody ever goes to that store to shop because its too crowded.”
“I knew I was in deep shit. I didnt know how deepjust that I still hadnt touched bottom.”
“Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with...”
“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”
“The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putins critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.”
“Fine, its decided. Vain resumed his stride. Ill do all the killing, and you doall the stuff that an Avun-Riah does. Whatever the hell that is.”
