"No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth."

-- Stanley Ellin

#Writing Quotes #Gun Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Got that gun?â€ Peter says to Tobias. â€œNo,â€ says Tobias, â€œI figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.”
“The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.”
“Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life.”
“What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.”
“I think the process of being hopeful, being really opportunity oriented, not just in rhetoric but in action, showing that no one get's left behind, not just by talking about it but by doing it, I think is really a key [to political success].”
“Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle...”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
“Normal and I parted ways when Pateir1ch strolled into my life. Patch has seven inches on me, operates on cold, hard logic, moves like smoke, and lives alone in a supersecret, superswanky studio beneath Delphic Amusement Park. The sound of his voice, low and sexy, can melt my heart in three seconds flat. Heâ€™s also a fallen angel, kicked out of heaven for his flexibility when it comes to following rules. I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.”

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