"I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse."

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Henry James

#Writing Quotes #Bleeding Quotes #Butchery Quotes

“When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.”

Source : "The Exchange: Daniel Alarcón" by Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2009.
“I go where the sound of thunder is.”
“Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.”
“I am very aggressive and very physical. On the field, I guess I am just plain mean.”
“There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned”
“I had fewer female clients. I don't know why. It was always the men who chose me. And the ones whose secrets I had to hold. I represented Sophia Loren. She was jailed in Caserta for 17 days.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.”
“I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.”

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