"It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty."

-- Karen Thompson Walker

#Years Quotes #Looks Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.”
“I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”

Source : Jacobellis v. Ohio (concurring opinion) (1964)
“If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!”
“The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“My advice is to make acting your second career choice”
“Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.”
“I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.”
“Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”

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