"I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing."

-- Dorothy Allison

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“Most great writers suffer and have no idea how good they are. Most bad writers are very confident. Be willing to be a child and be the Lilliputian in the world of Gulliver, the bat girl in Yankee Stadium. Thatâ€™s a more fruitful way to be.”
“There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.”

Source : Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions
“What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.”
“I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.”
“I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go.”
“Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.”
“This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.203, Harvard University Press
“It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.”

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