Donald Windham famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand.
-- Donald Windham

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing the awful, uncomfortable truth: that we must act boldly, decisively, comprehensively, and quickly, even before we know every last detail about the crisis. Those who continue to argue that the appropriate response is merely additional research are simply seeking to camouflage timidity or protect their vested interest in the status quo.
Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Donald Windham famous quotes

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