"I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Hampton Fancher

#Fun Quotes #Poetic Quotes #Existence Quotes

“It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.”

Source : "Can lisp do what perl does easily?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. March 28, 2000.
“During the fire: 'Some of the drunker ones don't move. Some of them laugh. One person says, "Where's the marshmallows?" Mark slaps him across the face. "GET OUT!" he screams.”
“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”
“If society will adopt the rule of nature, and justify no marriage without a supreme affection, the evils of marriage without love will be sufficiently cured. Those who marry without the consent of Nature may securely expect trouble.”

Source : Joseph Cook (1879). “Marriage: With Preludes on Current Events”
“If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.”
“Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.”

Source : Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”

Source : Remarks at town hall meeting, Kuwait, 8 Dec. 2004
“I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.”

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