"Hitting the gym to release stress is not……" — Alan Garner
"Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with."
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20 Quotes by Alan Garner
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When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you…
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It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's…
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I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
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I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.
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Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of…
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The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in…
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My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long,…
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My primary tongue, I would call North-West Mercian.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
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