"[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens."

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Source : Usenet article <[email protected]>, 2006.

James Nicoll

#Book Quotes #Hero Quotes #Writing Quotes

“You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life's tragedies.”
“My mom had always wanted me to better myself. I wanted to better myself because of her. Now when the strikes started, I told her I was going to join the union and the whole movement. I told her I was going to work without pay. She said she was proud of me. (His eyes glisten. A long, long pause.) See, I told her I wanted to be with my people. If I were a company man, nobody would like me anymore. I had to belong to somebody and this was it right here.”
“It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.”
“You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.”
“One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”
“As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.”
“I think people want success, you know, and I'm the captain.”
“The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.”

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