"The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today."

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Source : "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

R. A. Lafferty

#Writing Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Today Quotes

“maybe when you look at your face 50 times its really not that interesting anymore”
“I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.”
“You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.”
“Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”
“Injuries come only from the heart.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.198
“Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself”
“Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen. (1961)”

Source : Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 191, 194, May 1961.
“I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.”

Source : "Guest: Who's 'going To Disneyland'?" by Josh Zerkle, uproxx.com. February 05, 2010.

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