"I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday."

-- Jack L. Chalker

#Holiday Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Used Quotes

“Is this the part where you say if I hurt her, you'll kill me?" "No" Simon said, "If you hurt Clary she's quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”
“Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”

Source : G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.180, Read Books Ltd
“The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House
“I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit stir-crazy to be cooped up in there, so I'll grab my laptop and write somewhere else: another room in the house, out on the patio, or even Heaven-forbid, a trip to Starbucks. But I also write on the road.”
“Cracked pots allow the treasure to shine forth.”
“I prefer the word aviatrix. It has more zing to it." "It's very zingy," I agreed.”
“My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.”
“Iâ€™ve worked with collage a lot. And thereâ€™s this chance thing that happens-you donâ€™t always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But youâ€™ve got this thing, and you make it work. Itâ€™s the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.”

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