"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

-- Gene Fowler

#Running Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.”
“Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.”
“Once I looked into it, I was taken aback to learn that pretty much nothing by JoÃ£o Gilberto Noll was available in English translation. I was confident that I could find an editor and the readership for a translation: Noll is highly respected in Brazil, and at the same time divisive, somewhat like Hilda Hilst. Neither of them enjoys the universal acclaim you might associate with Clarice Lispector, whom everyone adores, myself included. Still, I considered it a tremendous injustice that Noll had not been more widely translated and was determined to rectify it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom.”
“Don’t believe me, believe your Bible!”
“You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.”

Source : "Liverpool’s Ian Rush: India Needs a Soccer Hero". Interview with Will Davies, blogs.wsj.com. August 29, 2011.
“Shooting great-grandchildren of some of the people I had photographed in the past, who are around the age of 15, is fascinating to me, because they're right on this fine line between still being children and starting to become themselves.”
“I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.”

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