"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Life Quotes #Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Anyone can look pretty with hair and make-up.”
“I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.”
“We all just really love teen movies and teen music and I've just always been fixated on that, so I'm just kind of immature about that kind of stuff still.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Putin is just maneuvering. He wants to be respected. He wants to be an important player in global politics. He wants people to negotiate with him and he wants to have the trade-offs here and there and spheres of influence. He's very much a person of the 20th century in the global and geopolitical space.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“I'm making out with a dead girl in my dreams. I'm screwing women I have no business screwing. I'm pushing away the one person who actually gives a damn about me. It's like the Bermuda Triangle of heartache and I'm sinking fast.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (2013). “Come What May”, p.74, Faith Sullivan
“Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.”
“Cats ... are like four-legged poster children for OCD.”
“I canâ€™t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.”

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