"Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works."

-- Tom Robbins

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“I can't stand cell phones and I don't know one single thing about the computer. I have a friend come that lives in my building to check if I have emails. I don't even know what to google.”
“In history people dressed much better than we do today.”
“We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.”
“They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.”
“It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”
“Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.”
“Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in todayâ€™s world, I wish to suggest a single choiceâ€”a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is not a free gift given without thought, desire, or effort. It does not come as the dew falls from heaven. The Savior said, â€œCome unto meâ€ (Matthew 11:28) and â€œKnock, and it shall be [given] youâ€ (Matthew 7:7). These are action verbsâ€”come, knock. They are choices. So I say, choose faith.”
“Darwin seems to lose out with the public primarily when his supporters force him into a mano-a-mano Thunderdome death match against the Almighty. Most people seem willing to accept Darwinism as long as they don't have to believe in nothing but Darwinism. Thus, the strident tub-thumping for absolute atheism by evolutionary biologists like Richard Dawkins, whom the new issue of Discover Magazine rightly criticizes as "Darwin's Rottweiler," is self-defeating.”

Source : "The Left Doesn't Like Darwin Either". vdare.com, August 7, 2005.

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