"I'd forgotten - perhaps preferred to forget - that I'd caved in to the interference of some copy-editor... somebody anonymous whose commitment to finding something wrong would not disgrace an Eastern European clerk."

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Source : Ramsey Campbell (2011). “The Hungry Moon”, p.468, Samhain Publishing

Ramsey Campbell

#Commitment Quotes #Editors Quotes #Clerks Quotes

“Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.”
“I always wanted to be some kind of writer - I wrote plays and songs and "books" before I realized living and breathing people still wrote poems.”
“Despite the goings-on in Congress, I don't believe the USA is bordering on madness. I believe Mexico and Canada are.”
“I am told, in a dream ... you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.”
“When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play Space Invaders. Then I fell in love with Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog and Yoshi on Super Nintendo. I was quite a bit of a gamer as a kid when I think about it.”
“How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone... I will devote all my efforts to this end... I will go before the Blessed Sacrament, and there sign these resolutions with my blood.”
“The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.”

Source : James David Barber (1992). “The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House”
“Where you start is not as important as where you finish.”

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