"...called nine-one-one," Howie was saying, "and then I heard something in the alleyway, so I went back there and" --Howie coughed-- "and valiantly attacked his knife with my guts, to no avail." "Did you get a good look at him? Could you describe him?" Howie smiled wanly. "Yeah. He was about yay long" --he held up his hands, four inches apart-- "thin, made of steel. Pointy. Sharp."

-- Barry Lyga

#Hands Quotes #Knives Quotes #Long Quotes

“When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.”
“The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.”

Source : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”
“A painting is an object which has an emphatic frontal surface. On such a surface, I paint a black band which does not recede, a color band which does not obtrude, a white square or rectangle which does not move back or forth, to or fro, or up or down; there is also a painted white exterior frame band which is edged round the edge to the black. Every part is painted and contiguous to its neighbor; no part is above or below any other part. There is no hierarchy. There is no ambiguity. There is no illusion. There is no space or interval (time).”
“This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.”
“Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.”
“Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.”
“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”
“I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.”

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