"Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys."

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Source : Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “A Gentle Murderer”, p.196, Open Road Media

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#Soul Quotes #Monkeys Quotes #Peanuts Quotes

“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.”
“Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.”
“I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.”
“All women are princesses , it is our right.”
“It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.”

Source : Ralph Fletcher (2010). “How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You”, p.5, Harper Collins
“I do lots - I've always felt that the idea when you're on your deathbed is, you know, to do lots of different - to say that you've done lots of different interesting things not, you know, how expensive a lining you can get for your coffin, you know.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“I loved short stories, and they were all I wanted to write. I love the compression of them and the exactitude needed to get a whole world into such a small space.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.”

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