"Writing is the worst part of being a writer."

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James Atlas

#Writing Quotes #Worst Quotes

“If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.”
“All language is but a poor translation.”
“Is the human race a universal constructor?”
“Obviously, a power player in a criminal organization doesnt have to persuade anyone. He can just do what he wants.”
“Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.”

Source : Vigen Guroian (2001). “Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening”, p.14, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.”
“Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown, like the time she forced me to have sex with her in the little car, or the time she kept spraying me with the seltzer bottle until I obeyed her every command. Ethan and I would laugh and laugh at these tall tales, but I could tell deep down, he was wondering whether the leather clown was really real or not. And I would let him wonder.”

Source : "Song: 'Leather Clown' ('They')". 1988.
“It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.”

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