"All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new."

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“Like everybody I have many different sides.”
“The way I feel about you, it's like I finally understand what Lionel Richie is singing about. I mean, what we have, it's like movie love.”
“As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
“The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth as just a temporary phase that people pass through, indeed, an infinitesimal fraction of their existenceâ€¦the gradual replacement of lives for souls as the locus of moral value was helped along by the ascendency of skepticism and reason”
“I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.”
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.”

Source : "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.
“I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.”

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