Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."
~ Michael Iapoce
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Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."
~ Michael Iapoce
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
- Edmund Morrison
"And if my ideas concerning the boundaries of art seem rather lenient, that's too bad. I'm no snob, and if you are, that's your problem. In my business, if you lose your taste for good baloney, it's time you got into some other line of work."
-Sai King
“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”
Tiffany Madison
Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ~Ray Bradbury
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you”
Jack Lasenby, The Shaman And The Droll
May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed sunshine shine on you and warm your heart till it glows like a great peat fire, so that the stranger may come and warm himself at it, and also a friend.
- Irish blessing
"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."--Nabokov, Lolita
This is the way of peace-overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
- Peace Pilgrim
“People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.”
Julie Rugg. (A Book Addict's Treasury)