"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."

-- Annie Dillard

#Block Quotes #Past Quotes #Woods Quotes

“We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.”
“Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.”
“No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.”
“If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!”
“I actually love actors.”
“I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.”
“Know that originally none of us are from Earth. We all have natural origins off the planet. We are having human experience, but one thing we're going to have to come to understand - and I know that's a lot for some people - is that our heritage is within the galactic origin. We are going to come into alignment with that by remembering our individual origins - and that's going to be a very important part of our enlightenment process.”
“Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.”

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