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- The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your…
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they…
- Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in…
- Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.
- You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.…
- Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
- Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing…
- But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear…
- What you get is no longer what you see.
- If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of…
- If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
- We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can…
- It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting…
- I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
- When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.…
- The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own,…
- Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start…
- But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but…
- What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been…
- But we still find the world astounding, we can't get enough of it; even as it shrivels, even as its many lights flicker and are…
- You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong