"It's important to look ahead, I think, to shape your stuff for - again - effect. Because it's just so easy to write long, flowy sentences, get lost in them. The hard part's making them matter, making yourself make them matter."

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Stephen Graham Jones

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.”
“When I see guys in bars wearing the real fitted kind of Calvin Klein v-neck t-shirts I just want to go up to them and be like, 'Oh, do you work out? Your tricep looks so great - thank you.'”
“To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.”
“Keep pace with the present. Take a trip to the moon. envision the future.”

Source : Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons
“Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.”
“Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.”
“When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.”
“You are the Self, that perfect immutable Self. Nothing else exists. Nothing else ever existed. Nothing else will ever exist. There is only one Self and you are That. Rejoice!”

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