"In general, teaching writing makes me a far better reader because there's so many ways to write a good sentence or a good story, and as a teacher I'm obliged to consider them all, rather than staying in the safety of my own tendencies."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Leni Zumas

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“Women, we care a great deal about being thin and good looking, whereas men mostly care about sex - ideally with women who are thinner and better looking than they are.”
“We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth..”

Source : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
“Beware of men bearing flowers.”
“Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some...”
“You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.”
“My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.”

Source : "Interview With Justin Falconer; Interview With Ron Reagan Jr". "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.
“Itâ€™s not really the love that I envy, itâ€™s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they canâ€™t not love you.”

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