"I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need."

-- Ross Macdonald

#Writing Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
“Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of oneâ€™s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...Thereâ€™ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish.”
“What had been released into the desert vacuum and starry oases of the galaxy was the inexorable logic of reproduction and natural selection. What followed was parasitism, predation, symbiosis, interdependency chaos, complexity, life.”
“This Medal of Honor does not belong to me. This medal belongs to every man and woman who has ever served their country. We were doing what we were trained to do. We were doing our job.”
“I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?”

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan
“You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.”
“Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast. Face it Tally-wa you're special...”
“I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.”

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