"Slamming the book shut produces a wind on……" — Ben Marcus
"Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission."
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33 Quotes by Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus has 33 quotes on this site.
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Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched…
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A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
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Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
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People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this…
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To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no…
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Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.
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Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to…
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RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full…
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Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
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Sorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant…
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Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I…
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A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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