"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."

-- Edward Dahlberg

#Writing Quotes #Evil Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.”
“Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.”
“I like to interpret 'Call me a River', as if I'm saying, 'Now you're telling me you love me after all that, and I'm telling you to shove off.' That's my interpretation. But I would never 'say' that because somebody else might interpret the song in another way.”
“I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.”
“We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.”
“We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.”
“I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.”
“Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.”

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