"Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?"

-- Brion Gysin

“There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.”
“No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.”
“The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.”
“Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel.Â 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss.Â Keep integrity at every cost,”
“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

Source : Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”
“Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running”
“We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.”
“The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.”

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