"I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud."

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Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.43, Macmillan

Dan Wells

#Character Quotes #Hands Quotes #Just Being Quotes

“Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.”
“Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.”
“I wonder what my speech would be.”
“We are regarded as a Third World country with First World living conditions.”

Source : Pauline Hanson's maiden speech to the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Government, www.sbs.com.au. September 10, 1996.
“Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.”
“Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.”
“I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.”
“Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.”

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