"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Writing Quotes #Editors Quotes #Rejection Quotes

“But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.”
“Where there is unity, there is the victory.”
“Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small- clothes and looks as if he smelt it.”
“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
“The defining factor [for success] is never resources; itâ€™s resourcefulness.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
“Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.”
“I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.”

Source : "ABC’s Jeff Zeleny Conducts Puffy, Shoe-Focused Interview With Wendy Davis". Interview with Paul Bremmer, www.newsbusters.org. July 4, 2013.

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