"Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts."

-- Muriel Spark

#Running Quotes #Debt Quotes

“I beat a brain tumor.”
“My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.”
“A writer writes what other people only think.”

Source : Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.87, St. Martin's Press
“A forest," William said, his expression distant. "Where the ground is dry soil and stone. Where tall trees grow and centuries of autumn carpet their roots. Where the wind smells of game and wildflowers." "Why, that was lovely, Lord Bill. Do you ever write poetry? Something for your blueblood lady?" "No." "She doesn't like poetry?" "Leave it." Hehe. "Oh, so you have a lady. How interes--”
“I was trying to organise my DVDs into a sort of chronological order, and I am afraid that it all trailed off after the Sixties.”
“If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.”
“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.369, Bantam
“Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.”

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