"I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. .... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King."

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Source : Charles Willeford (2009). “Miami Blues”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Charles Willeford

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“You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to.”
“Sometimes I will portray the more normal-looking people as the monsters and then the more distorted - "uniquely formed" is the word I like to use, rather than monstrous - as the sympathetic characters in the painting. It's interesting because some people will get it right away, but a common reaction is to be a little off-put by it. And that is the whole idea. If it grabs somebody in a negative way, that's my intention.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.”

Source : David Friedrich Strauss, George Eliot (1860). “The life of Jesus critically examined”, p.339
“Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.”

Source : FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Nov 24, 2016
“But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.”
“If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.”

Source : "Computers draw a new chapter in comics". Interview with Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2009.
“Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itchâ€”terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.”

Source : "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".
“The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.64, Psychology Press

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