"Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else."

-- Anna Godbersen

#Fifth Avenue Quotes #Growing Quotes #Minutes Quotes

“I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The dad is really going to take it on the chin in this one!" Not in terms of any given story, and certainly not in terms of the collection as a whole.”
“Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.”

Source : "Matthea Harvey, author of 'Modern Life'". Interview with Wendy Vardaman, www.versewisconsin.org.
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
“Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.”
“There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the will to do something creative on a subject that seems interesting. Then just giving it a bloody good bash - that's the main thing.”
“Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.”
“The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.”
“A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

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