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Dan Wells
"The monster behind the wall stirred. I'd come to think of it as a monster, but it was just me. Or the darker part of me, at least. You probably think it would be creepy to have a real monster hiding inside of you, but trust me - it's far, far worse when the monster is really just your own mind. Calling it a monster seemed to distance it a little, which made me feel better about it. Not much better, but I take what I can get." --
Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.88, Macmillan
Dan Wells
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“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”
“I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.”
“I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.”
Source : "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.
“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.”
“To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.”
“Stupidity is a factor to be reckoned with in human affairs. The true leader always expects to encounter it, and prepares to endure it patiently so long as it is normal stupidity. He knows that his ideas will be distorted, his orders carelessly executed; and that there will be jealousy among his assistants. He takes these inevitable phenomena into account, and instead of attempting to find men without faults, who are non-existent, he tries to make use of the best men at his disposal - as they are, and not as they ought to be.”
Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
“Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.”
Source : Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins
“Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.”