"If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to distinguish between honest emotional reactions and sentimental approaches to life, you will never write a competent short story."

-- Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.”
“I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.”
“All that first term, lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term,”

Source : "NRA official: Obama wants to outlaw guns in 2nd term". www.washingtontimes.com. February 10, 2012.
“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”
“It is either easy or impossible.”
“I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.”
“we give each other a smile with a future in it”
“Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.”

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