"Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing."

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Deb Caletti

#Impossible Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.”
“I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.”
“I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.”

Source : "Barry Bostwick on Rocky Horror, Spin City, and playing rich assholes". Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2015.
“I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”

Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.23, Delphi Classics
“The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.”
“I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
“I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.”
“Her eyes were those of someone who's just fallen in love, someone who sees nothing but her lover, someone who has no fear of anything. The eyes of someone who believes that every dream will come true, that reality will move if you just give it a push.”

Source : Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.8, Grove Press

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