"This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit."

-- Stephen King

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Bullshit Quotes

“A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.”
“The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of itâ€¦ If youâ€™re convinced that cooking is drudgery, youâ€™re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.”

Source : James Beard, Amy Pastan, Peter Pastan (1986). “James Beard's theory & practice of good cooking in large print”, G K Hall & Co
“I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very heavily involved in theater back then. I was always in drama club or forensics. Anything that you could do that had some performing, I was doing it.”
“I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.”
“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.”
“She died praying that she might die.”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.228, Penguin
“Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.”
“Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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