"The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed."

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Donald E. Westlake

#Team Quotes #Doors Quotes #People Quotes

“Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.”

Source : Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159
“I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic.”
“Judi Bari did something that I believe is unparalleled in the history of the environmental movement. She is an Earth First! activist who took it upon herself to organize Georgia Pacific sawmill workers into the IWWâ€¦Well guess what friends, environmentalists and rank and file timber workers becoming allies is the most dangerous thing in the world to the timber industry!”
“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History”
“Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail
“Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.”
“I want to be the horse in the rotation that everybody can really rely on and is going to get that consistent starter.”
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27

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