"Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Joy Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Novelists Quotes

“Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.”
“Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Chiropractors correct abnormalities of the intellect as well as those of the body.”
“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
“There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.”
“I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the tagged dissolute. The tagged dissolute. That is the only cross on which I wish to be crucified. Though ten thousand people criticize me, I can throw in their teeth my challenge: Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?”
“Is man indeed a walrus at heart?”
“After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire careerâ€”in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdadâ€”watching the people within those borders burn.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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