"I've got a gig," Jim said. I sat up in my bed, wide-awake. A gig was good- I needed the money. "Half." "Third." "Half." "Thirty-five percent." Jim's voice hardened. "Half." The phone went silent as my former Guild partner mulled it over. "Okay, forty." I hung up.(...) The phone rang. I let it ring twice before I picked it up. "Fine." Jim's voice had a hint of a snarl in it. "Half."

-- Ilona Andrews

#Voice Quotes #Phones Quotes #Hints Quotes

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”
“If the Egyptian people can create a democracy in the heart of the Arab world, it will be a more significant contribution to civilization than the great pyramids.”
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
“Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.”
“Fame is nothing but an empty name.”

Source : Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.24
“You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.”
“The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.”
“Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.”

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