"When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh."

-- Edward Abbey

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Earthquakes Quotes

“I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?”
“Online bullying has to stop.”

Source : "'That's what people call my son!' Katie Price defends saying n-word twice on This Morning by using it more" by Hayley Minn, www.mirror.co.uk. April 26, 2017.
“A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.”
“Truth is aÂ hellÂ of a big point with me. Now IÂ exaggerateâ€”always.”
“We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.”
“I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I donâ€™t know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.”
“My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching that made me really want to do that. I am my own person, and I think that the only thing with the Hemingway name is that it has gotten me in the door.”

Source : "Dree Hemingway on 'Starlet,' Porn and Her Famous Great-Grandfather, Ernest". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2012.

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