"When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Leigh Newman

#Kings Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.”
“As for an eternity in heaven - that would be hell!”
“At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.”

Source : David Levien (2008). “City of the Sun: Frank Behr”, p.401, Random House
“Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.”
“I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.”
“I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.”
“Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.”
“Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.”

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