A. Lee Martinez Quotes

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• To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry…
• Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.
• It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.
• Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
• Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by…
• He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
• In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
• Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
• Death should take more care with his paperwork.
• Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer,…
• I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in…
• Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

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