James Alexander Thom Quotes

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• Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there,…
• Probably the most honest "self-made person" ever was the one we heard say: "I got to the top the hard way - fighting my own…
• If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it…
• To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political…
• We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.
• For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.
• A closed mouth gathers no foot.
• Too often we seek justice for just us.
• Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

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