"August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge."

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Source : Blaize Clement (2010). “Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.43, Minotaur Books

Blaize Clement

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“there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?”
“Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.”
“If you eat meat, something like that is going on in the background for you too.”
“The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.”
“To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.”
“Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.”
“Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.”
“It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.”

Source : "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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