"If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either"."

--

James M. Cain

#Writing Quotes #Night Quotes

“You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.”
“If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.”
“In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.”
“Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.”
“He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.”
“In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a new ice age. Books and documentaries appeared, hypothesizing a snowblitz or sporting titles such as The Cooling. Even the CIA got into the act, sponsoring several meetings and writing a controversial report warning of threats to American security from the potential collapse of Third World Governments in the wake of climate change.”
“For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another”
“Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.”

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