"Anyone who can not write should."

-- Harlan Ellison

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“It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.”
“What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Darryl". "Be Cool", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?”
“Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.”
“I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)”
“There is a silence that matches our best possibilities when we have learned to listen to others. We can master the art of being quiet in order to be able to hear clearly what others are saying. . . . We need to cut off the garbled static of our own preoccupations to give to people who want our quiet attention.”
“I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.”
“There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.”

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