"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Style Quotes #Fancy Quotes #Murder Quotes

“People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.”
“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”
“It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world.”
“I am a happy camper so I guess Iâ€™m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
“There is no space wider than that of grief ...”
“By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that's always done during a project's pitching stage.”
“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.13, Open Road Media
“There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.”

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