"John Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is very important to me as an influence. When I didn't know how to start Mr. Splitfoot, I just wrote the first line of As I Lay Dying instead and then continued on. It's dissolved in the text now, but it helped me start."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

#Important Quotes #Dying Quotes #Influence Quotes

“For me, box step-ups and power clean [exercises] is by far the best.”
“It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.”
“But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.”
“Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.”
“The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.”

Source : FaceBook post by Warren Adler from Jun 25, 2013
“Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt.”
“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it..”
“I consider it an honor and a privilege to play for the Indianapolis Colts, and I would never want to jeopardize it by doing something stupid.”

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