"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."

-- Lynn Abbey

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Orphan Quotes

“Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.”
“Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says heâ€™s not going to take a patientâ€™s temperature.”

Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.
“The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.”
“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”
“A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.”
“Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."”
“My light shines when things get really tough.”
“A man's character is his fate.”

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