George Alec Effinger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.
-- George Alec Effinger

#Real #Mirrors #Looks
Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.
-- George Alec Effinger

#Cures #Fine #Adolescence
Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things.
-- George Alec Effinger

#Apocalypse #Apocalyptic #Horsemen
I figured if Allah had wanted us up that early, He wouldn't have invented noon.
-- George Alec Effinger

#Noon #Wanted #Ifs

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.
Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.
You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

George Alec Effinger famous quotes

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