"I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story."

-- Gene Wolfe

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Nobody needs a cookie. You will never get your lab results back, Well, apparently, Miss Bexim what you need - and I am a doctor, I've never seen this before - some sort of a cookie. You're actually too healthy. You need a cookie.”
“I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because theyâ€™re two sides of the same coin.”
“Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.284, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.”
“I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.”
“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Source : The Mind of Primitive Man preface (1938)
“The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.”
“Oneâ€™s life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.”

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