"The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well."

-- Sarah Monette

#Stories Quotes #Monkeys Quotes #Paws Quotes

“I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.”
“I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.”
“A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.”
“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
“Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?”

Source : Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1987). “The Best Novels and Stories of Eugene Manlove Rhodes”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press
“But things don't just fall apart. People break them.”

Source : Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.”
“The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.”

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