If you only come face to
face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it’s bound to be extra
painful. I face mine every day – that way they ain’t usually much worse than a
dry shave. – Gus (Agustus) from Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
I wanted to sleep. I
wanted to get into bed, turn off the light, and go to sleep. I don't sleep. I
can't sleep, I've never been able to sleep. It started, I think," he says,
"as soon as I learned to read for pleasure. -- from Tim Cahill's
short story Dreams.
It is important that
we are occasionally, perhaps even frequently, depressed by books, challenged by
films, shocked by paintings, maybe even disturbed by music. But do they have to
do all these things all the time? Can't we let them console, uplift, inspire,
move, cheer? Please? -- Nick Hornby
It is with our
judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his
own. -- Alexander Pope
It took me fifteen
years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up
because by that time I was too famous. --Robert Benchley
We do not see the
world as it is, we see it as we are. – Anais Inn
The road to hell is
paved with adverbs. - Stephen King
And along those same lines
comes this verse from Alan Jackson's "The Talkin' Song Repair Blues"
And I know you've been using a cut-rate thesaurus
'Cause your adverbs have backed up into your chorus
Now your verse is runnin' on verbs that are way too weak.
What are some of your favorite quotes?
What are some of your favorite quotes?
"The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief time-out; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life."
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