"To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them."

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William Steig

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.”
“How about not equating death with stopping?”
“Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.”
“If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked.”
“Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.”

Source : Chungliang Al Huang (2009). “Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life”, p.9, Bantam
“Were Moses to go up Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd bring down with him would be aspirin and Prozac.”
“This cocktail may be virgin, but you won't be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and... an aphrodisiac.”
“When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)”

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