"When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring."

-- Sloane Crosley

#Years Quotes #Class Quotes #Technique Quotes

“A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press
“At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.”
“[James vowed again to] use the National Guard and state troopers to prevent the removal [of Judge Roy Moore's Commandments display].”
“Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.”
“By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.”
“Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.”
“Cats don't belong to people. They belong to places.”

Source : Wright Morris (1989). “Collected stories, 1948-1986”, David R. Godine Publisher
“One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.”

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