"The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him."

-- Richard North Patterson

#Manhattan Quotes #Flaws Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”
“The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
“I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.”
“Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.”
“The very person you find it hardest to forgive is the one you need to let go of the most. Forgiveness means letting go. It has nothing to do with condoning behavior, it's just letting the whole thing go. We do not have to know how to forgive. All we need to do is be willing to forgive. The Universe will take care of the hows.”
“Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.”
“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
“All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.”

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