"Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Sabina Murray

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“AMC [All My Children] launched my career and changed my life. I got married there and had my baby there and made so many close friends. I am so sad that it is going away. It is a part of television history. Pine Valley is a part of America. It breaks my heart. That role taught me how to really be an actress. It introduced me to a man who gave me my daughter. That is something that I am eternally thankful for and will always be.”
“Power is the ability to affect others to get the outcomes you want, and that can be done by coercion, payment or attraction.”
“What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.”
“If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.”
“Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.”

Source : Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press
“After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.”
“My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.”
“People that donâ€™t know and hear about it, they start to think that all the people that do jiu-jitsu smokes pot, is a drug addict. Here I am fighting for something good, and the guy is fighting for something bad, in my point of view. I canâ€™t agree with that, what he represents. Nothing to do with his jiu-jitsu, his school. If you want to do something like that, do it in private. Keep it to yourself.”

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