"Polishing: a useful lesson for the hopeful writer. You say your tormented prose doesn't read as well as mine? Neither does mine, at first!"

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Source : Piers Anthony (2012). “Bearing an Hourglass”, p.359, Del Rey

Piers Anthony

#Hopeful Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.”

Source : "Britain trails China in dash to low-carbon economy, warns Tim Yeo" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2010.
“The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.”
“Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she could have been there for any number of diagnoses, and wasn't. Even her promises to visit more often have faded away with Christmas. It's her turn to taste some reality.”
“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”
“Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.”
“I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.”
“I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.”

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