"Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent."

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Source : "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

Peter Straub

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“OMG YOU GUYS it has come to my attention that SOMEONE on the internet is saying that my fictional 19th century zombies are NOT SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND. Naturally, I am crushed. To think, IF ONLY Iâ€™d consulted with a zombologist or two before sitting down to write, I couldâ€™ve avoided ALL THIS EMBARRASSMENT.”
“Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a public marketplace attracts the fabulists the way picnics attract ants. Stock brokers and financial planners can tell you anything they want, because no one really knows what's true. The First Corollary to Quinn's First Law states that, even when the price is in the newspapers, you shouldn't buy anything too complex to explain to the average 12-year-old.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.789, Simon and Schuster
“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”
“I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.”
“Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together.”
“I am not overstatingthis; the anointing is mandatory if you are called to serve The Lord. Without it there will be no growth, no blessing, no victory in your ministry.”
“Itâ€™s hard, in America, not to equate â€˜happinessâ€™ with â€˜thingsâ€™.”
“Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us.”

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