"Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he was born to write. And if you prefer your novels brazen, poignant and hilarious, as I do, you were born to read it. Like a great show, this will stay with you long after the last cymbal crash and power strum."

-- Sam Lipsyte

#Stars Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them.I think you should just wait for the person you'rein love with.”
“It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.”
“But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor can it reasonably be presumed that the restoration of British freedom was exempt from tumult and faction. The pre-eminence of birth and fortune must have been frequently violated by bold and popular citizens; and the haughty nobles, who complained that they were become the subjects of their own servants, would sometimes regret the reign of an arbitrary monarch.”
“It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.”
“You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentrate on being happy with yourself as you are.”
“If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.”

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