"Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol."

-- Padgett Powell

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“It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.”
“A writer is a controlled schizophrenic.”
“Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.”
“We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?”
“Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these over the years, and I can answer without batting an eye: No. Accomplishments, applause, awards and fortune are rewards that often come as the result of hard work and a determined spirit, but there is something bigger. Something better. Something that will outlast the winningest season, the plushest corner office, the heftiest bonus and the loudest cheers. That something can only be found when we look beyond the final score.”
“No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.”
“I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it.”
“The writer's life seethes within but not without.”

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