"What's invaluable about actually going to the places you want to write about are the random accidental things that happen. Random, accidental detail is the best way to make a setting convincing. You can of course invent your own random details, and sometimes I will also mash up real incidents."

-- Zachary Lazar

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mash Up Quotes

“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the motherâ€™s convenience.”
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”
“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
“I don't know much about that whole grunge thing.”

Source : USA Today, December 7, 1994.
“It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.”
“In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press
“Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.”

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