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William Styron

"From the writer's point of view, critics should be ignored, although it's hard not to do what they suggest. I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends. Suppose you write something that stinks, what are they going to say in a review? Say it stinks? So if they're honest, they do, and if you were friends you're still friends, but the knowledge of your lousy writing and their articulate admission of it will be always something between the two of you, like the knowledge between a man and his wife of some shady adultery."

-- William Styron

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The Omen is one of my favorites. Even though I'm an atheist now, I was brought up Catholic and can remember thinking that it could actually be real! The first Dawn of the Dead is a great one. We had a TV serial in Britain called Day of the Triffids and that was always really terrifying for me as well.”
“History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.”
“I've never recorded anything I didn't like.”
“I'm Teoish," Sarene said, successfully spearing something that looked like a marinated piece of shrimp. "We're all this tall." "Father's Teoish too, Kaise," Daorn said. "And you know how tall he is." "But father's fat," Kaise pointed out. "Why aren't you fat too, Sarene?”
“I donâ€™t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. Iâ€™m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning.”
“Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.”
“The implausible, well-nigh-miraculous functioning anarchy that we know as New York is adorned with every excellence of Western art. It is a city of manifold suggestions, which ministers to every ambition, engenders a thousand talents, nurtures ingenuity and experimentation.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2013). “Why the West is Best: A Muslim Apostate's Defense of Liberal Democracy”, p.19, Encounter Books
“Stalin was formed by much more than a miserable childhood, just as the USSR was formed by much more than Marxist ideology.”

Source : Simon Sebag Montefiore (2009). “Young Stalin”, p.25, Vintage

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