"Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems."

-- Peter Bichsel

#Doe Quotes #Dear God Quotes #Drawers Quotes

“Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”
“The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off”
“By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 29, 2012.
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
“The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.”

Source : "Question time: David Bailey" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2009.
“Will you never grow up?" "I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.”

Source : David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.39, Random House
“As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.”

Source : H.M. Tomlinson (1920). “The Sea And The Jungle”
“My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin' never goes away. This girl you been tellin' me about was your first love. And no matter what you do, she'll stay with you forever.”

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