"I channel the rote and the new and unseen. My head has always been the busiest of crossroads, a festival of happy and unhappy arrivals. In the hours before daybreak when I was a boy, god sent me words as visitors."

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Source : Jim Shepard (2008). “Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories”, p.130, Vintage

Jim Shepard

#Boys Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Unseen Quotes

“Did they look like anyone we know? For exampleâ€¦ a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar”
“Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.”
“A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.”
“The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.”
“Who knows what weâ€™ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.”
“A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.”
“I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?”

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